Sentences with phrase «on current consumption rates»

The 100 - year forecast was based on current consumption rates, about 1.1 billion tons a year.

According to estimates, today's natural gas supplies could meet America's needs for 100 years, based on the current consumption rate.

Not exact matches

Canada currently supplies over 1/3 of U.S. lumber consumption and if the current rate of growth in housing starts continues, the U.S. will need to increasingly rely on higher - priced imported lumber from outside of North America to fulfill their needs if they impose a quota restriction on Canadian lumber.

More importantly, says a Harvard study, «The current rate spread is an important influence on mortgage choice, as would be implied by a model in which borrowing - constrained households seek low rates in order to maintain the level of current consumption, or to increase the size of the house they can buy when constrained by bank limitations on mortgage interest - to - income ratios.»

«9 Based on the IEO2006 reference case forecast for coal consumption, and assuming that world coal consumption would continue to increase at a rate of 2.0 percent per year after 2030, current estimated recoverable world coal reserves would last for about 70 years.»

I wonder how much of that is on account of high oil prices (the US could bring them down by drilling in the Monterey county Shale deposit, which is estimated to have 3 years of oil for the US at current US oil consumption rates), ANWR, off - shore, etc..