Sentences with phrase «over high gas prices»

High Gas Prices Mean Fewer Traffic Fatalities High Gas Prices = Fewer Auto Deaths Americans Direct Scorn Over High Gas Prices Towards Washington Carrot 0, Stick 1: Gas Prices Cause Boom in Bikes, Transit High Gas Prices Changing Society More Motorists Running Out of Gas Public Transit Looking More Attractive in the Face of Record Gas Prices Auto Makers Demand Higher Gas Prices

Americans Direct Scorn Over High Gas Prices Towards Washington, Willing to Cut Safety to Up Mileage

Feeling rising pressure in the campaign over high gas prices (and the looming specter of extraordinary home heating costs this fall), he shifted his stance to considering some new offshore drilling if it was part of a comprehensive energy agreement including big investments and incentives for nonpolluting energy technologies.

Most Pakistanis cite concerns over high gas prices, unemployment rates and the state of education.

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The state also has one of the higher state gas taxes in the nation at over 37 cents per gallon, which also affects prices for New Jersey drivers.

New York's gas prices are in large part driven by its high taxes — the gas tax rose to over 43 cents per gallon in 2017.

Higher prices give businesses and consumers the incentive to modify energy use and make wise investments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over time.

As a result of the Attorney General's investigation into high gas prices during Hurricane Sandy, Attorney General Schneiderman secured over $ 300,000 in penalties and costs from more than 40 gas stations in New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley that gouged their customers.

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

Our descendants will pay a higher price for greenhouse gas build - up as real costs are updated over time

Part of the challenge over these past three years has been that people's number - one priority is finding a job and paying the mortgage and dealing with high gas prices.

As gas prices have fallen over the past several months, public perception of what is considered cheap has changed, indicating Americans now have a lower tolerance for high fuel prices than in the past.

The later 1.5 liter American - market CRX HF (high fuel economy) model (chassis codes EC1 and AF) could also reliably achieve very good gas mileage, more than a decade before gas - electric hybrids appeared on the market, and at no price premium over the base model; the 1.5 liter is rated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)(under the new rating system) at 42 miles per U.S. gallon (5.6 l / 100 km; 50 mpg ‑ imp) city and 51 miles per U.S. gallon (4.6 l / 100 km; 61 mpg ‑ imp) highway.

Although no one is calling the high gas prices of today a crisis yet, it's Honda to the rescue all over again.

It's almost guaranteed that gas prices will continue to rise over time, so make sure that you can afford to continue to fill your car up even with higher gas prices or longer communtes.

The next failure to compromise came in the fight over adding a «safety valve» provision to limit unanticipated high costs from greenhouse gas restrictions, something Joe Romm and many others rejected out of hand at the time, even though Romm last year (around minute 37 in this videotaped panel discussion) noted the need for pragmatism to get things started: «The game changer for the world isn't between no price for carbon and a high price.

Over the last decade or so, when oil prices have been high, the ratio of the oil price to the natural gas price has been consistently higher than any of the standard rules of thumb.

At the same time, the political turmoil over high energy prices has created a new hurdle facing those — including both presidential candidates — who say they want to blunt the unabated climb in emissions of greenhouse gases with a cap or tax.

Of course after that you won't get any free oil — no matter how high the investments prices at the gas station will keep rising over decades to come.

And even though the state's residential home electricity consumption ranks among the lowest (due in part to those high prices and generally lower air conditioning needs in summer and the use of gas and oil for heating loads in the winter rather than electricity), the average monthly electric bill in 2016 was just over $ 142 per month, third highest in the nation.

US thermal coal prices have risen over the past few months, largely lifted by higher gas prices for power generation, and forecasts for a tighter gas market in 2017 is good news for coal producers.

I gather from your remark of the current cheapness of fossil methane that you're looking at the US prices; here in Europe they're much higher, and the recent intervention in Ukraine's politics has people very concerned over Russian gas supplies reaching us next winter.

But those gas - fired plants face commodity and carbon price risks that will expose Albertans to higher electricity bills over the long term, something wind energy, with no fuel costs and no carbon emissions, can protect against.

Because the price of electricity varies sharply over the course of a day, and the price of natural gas runs all over the map but is generally higher in winter, the plant could end up changing modes daily and certainly seasonally.

Insofar as coal or gas have to be imported or transported over long distances, it pushes the price of power up higher than clean alternatives.

Recently, high oil prices, concerns over greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on foreign oil have boosted an interest in biofuels.

We estimate that gas spot prices in New England over the period from August 2013 to July 2016 were 38 percent higher due to these scheduling practices.

With the dramatic increase in oil prices earlier this year translating into higher prices at the gas pump in the United States, concerns over U.S. dependence on foreign oil are once again part of the national discussion on energy security.

This change is induced primarily by concerns over high fossil fuel prices, greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel import dependence.

While fossil fuels will account for most of the increased energy supply, renewable sources of energy will also gain importance, as a result of concerns over high fossil fuel prices, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and energy import dependence.

-- Supports a price on carbon AND methane — Supports high labor standards in the development of renewable energy — Supports changing the Clean Power Plan to incentivize renewable energy over fracked gas.

While fossil fuels will remain an important source of energy, renewable energies will also gain importance, as a result of concerns over high fossil fuel prices, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and energy import dependence.

It seems apparent that long term gas prices will cycle up slowly over time, as excess production is used up prices go up, possibly to a new slightly higher level, making the next level of production cost effective find and produce.

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In particular, depending mainly on (i) exactly how much abatement might be required over 2019 - 23, (ii) the amount and availability of combined - cycle gas - turbine (CCGT) generation capacity with the required efficiency levels, and (iii) the evolution of commodity prices between now and 2021, the carbon price required to plug the supply gap could be lower or higher than the levels we have imputed from our modelling of the supply - demand dynamics in the EU - ETS over 2019 - 23, and the fuel - switching price levels implied by current forward curves.

Additionally, natural gas prices would be 2.3 times higher for the power sector in 2040 than in 2013, and average consumer natural gas prices would nearly double over the same time period.

While natural gas is just over 5 per cent lower than wind costs, wind energy doesn't face the commodity price and carbon risks that will nudge natural gas costs higher in the future.

Natural gas prices will likely rise, making the costs of production higher and, according to the recent PWC report, shale oil may depress world crude prices over the years to come.

For example, higher coal prices due to carbon taxing will lead cost - minimizing power grids to more heavily dispatch lower - emitting natural gas power plants in the short run, and to switch increasingly to zero - carbon wind and solar generation over time.

The combination of high prices of natural gas, which is used to make nitrogen fertilizer, and of phosphate, as reserves are depleted, suggests a much greater future emphasis on nutrient recycling — an area where small farmers producing for local markets have a distinct advantage over massive feeding operations.

Amtrak Finally Gets More Funding The heavens are finally smiling on Amtrak, as a perfect storm of high gas prices, a slowing economy, concern over rail safety after the recent Los Angeles crash, soaring ridership and even Joe Biden's love of and support for Amtrak have helped push through the Senate a 5 year, $ 13 billion funding package.

Amtrak Finally Gets More Funding The heavens are finally smiling on Amtrak, as a perfect storm of high gas prices, a slowing economy, concern over rail safety after the recent Los Angeles crash, soaring ridership and even Joe Biden's love of and support

And this is especially important during the winter, when the demand for natural gas for home heating spikes in some parts of the country, leading to higher prices and less natural gas available for electricity generation (since home heating takes priority over electricity generation in terms of natural gas pipeline delivery contracts).

Reality setting in or the painful experience of two months of driving over the summer with high gas prices?