Sentences with phrase «percent less gas»

Only a year later, with recessionary clouds looming and prices at the pump 69 cents a gallon higher, Americans pumped 6 percent less gas.

German researchers created a methane - reducing pill, while scientists in Wales found that cows who consumed garlic produced 50 percent less gas (although it's unclear if a garlicky diet impacts the taste of milk or meat).

Not exact matches

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

Today, consumers can find gas for $ 2.24 or less at 60 percent of gas stations in the country.

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

Singapore, one of the sunniest cities in the world, generates almost all its power from imported natural gas, with solar fuelling less than 1 percent.

He claimed their lab - created burger uses about 74 percent less water, generates about 87 percent fewer greenhouse gases and requires around 95 percent less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

Researchers concluded that the Impossible Burger utilizes 87 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions, 74 percent less water, and 95 percent less land than conventional beef.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

If food and gas prices were included in the CPI, the rate of inflation would be closer to 10 percent, and, at that rate, the net purchasing power of earnings in ten years would be less than the initial investment, meaning you would have lost money.

According to the company, making the plant - based burger uses 99 percent less land, 85 percent less water, and emits 89 percent less greenhouse gas than traditional beef production.

The incidence of food intolerance that causes gas problems in babies is less than 5 percent, though, according to Senders Pediatrics of Euclid, Ohio.

Tires that our partner companies are now working on can improve gas mileage by up to 10 percent, just by changing the tires, because this rubber rolls with less resistance.

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

And burning natural gas releases 43 percent less CO2 than burning coal.

There are 15 million natural gas vehicles worldwide and only 120,000 to 130,000 in the United States, where they represent less than 1 percent of new vehicle sales.

«At Northwest, our greenhouse gas emissions have gone down 25 percent since 2000 and about 5 percent less than 1990,» says Ken Hylander, Northwest's senior vice president of safety and engineering.

The report notes that three business sectors — energy firms, utilities and materials companies — account for 87 percent of scope 1 and 2 emissions, greenhouse gases that are directly emitted by a firm's activities, even though they account for less than 25 percent of all companies on the index.

«New vehicles less than 2 years old emitted as little as 1 percent of the total amount of organic gases that a 20 - year - old vehicle emitted.

The low - carbon fuel standard orders providers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 10 percent by 2020 through efforts such as blending in biofuels that result in less greenhouse gases emitted when burned.

As for Mercier, the scale - up of his project from less than 1 percent of the cement plant's gas to a commercial level will depend more on money than on technological success, he said.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

Analysis of the first seven years of data from a NASA cloud - monitoring mission suggests clouds are doing less to slow the warming of the planet than previously thought, and that temperatures may rise faster than expected as greenhouse gas pollution worsens — perhaps 25 percent faster.

For example, burning compressed natural gas emits roughly 30 percent less CO2 than burning diesel but, if the new methane leakage estimates are true, the practice ends up being worse for climate change.

New Chandra images of Sagittarius A * (Sgr A *), which is located about 26,000 light - years from Earth, indicate that less than 1 percent of the gas initially within Sgr A *'s gravitational grasp ever reaches the point of no return, also called the event horizon.

While other greenhouse gases make up less of the atmosphere, they account for about 40 percent of the greenhouse gas radiation sent back to Earth.

The WorldWatch Institute estimates that a staggering 51 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture, and the United Nations has also urged everyone to eat less meat to combat global warming.

I expect the same with this one; however, the gas mileage is about ten percent less than my previous 330 six speed manual.

Mercedes says the plug - in hybrid produces 42 percent less C02 emissions than the gas variant.

The S560 Coupe and S560 Cabriolet are powered by a new V8 that Mercedes - Benz says is is one of the world's most economical V8 gas engines and consumes up to eight percent less than its predecessor.

The Zafira and Combo CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) produce almost no soot particles, 20 percent less carbon dioxide than a comparable gasoline model and an up to 80 percent reduction in other harmful emissions.

The diesel engine will meet emissions standards in all 50 states and will produce up to 20 percent less carbon emissions than a regular gas - powered engine.

An apples - to - apples comparison to gas - powered competitors — Ford Expedition, Nissan Armada and Toyota Sequoia — is pretty much the same: comparably equipped models are in the $ 50,000 range and fuel economy is 30 to 40 percent less than the Tahoe Hybrid.

Those manifolds then dump gasses to a new exhaust system constructed out of titanium that weighs 50 percent less than a regular Corvette exhaust.

As expected, this prop shaft is significantly lighter than the one found under the M3 Coupe — 40 percent lighter to be precise — but it is also more rigid, which results in less power loss through the drivetrain and quicker response times when you romp on the gas pedal.

Merged with the gas engine of course is an electric motor and CVT transaxle, and these have been redesigned, lightened, and claim 20 - percent less frictional losses.

If the 4.9 kilograms (7.5 m ³) of natural gas consumed per 100 kilometres by the new B 170 NGT BlueEFFICIENCY is converted into the equivalent quantity of petrol energy, the fuel cost per kilometre is around 50 percent less than when running on petrol.

Low rolling - resistance tires, 300 pounds less weight thanks to the new platform, a more - efficient CVT powertrain and dual fuel injectors in each of the 1.6 liter four's cylinders bumps gas mileage to 31 city / 40 highway and 35 combined, a 17 percent increase over the previous hatchback.

According to Ford, recycled aluminum cuts out up to 95 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that come with primary aluminum production, using far less energy — and water.

I personally never like to get less than 3 percent back on gas.

Cardholders on the search for a retail card with a great gas bonus may appreciate the 5 percent rate that the Sears Shop Your Way MasterCard offers on gas purchases for the first 12 months, though the regular rewards rate is less than spectacular and the APR is very high.

With a 5 percent bonus rate on gas purchases and a 3 percent bonus rate on groceries for the first 6 months of card ownership, the Sears Shop Your Way Mastercard offers one of the most valuable sign - up offers among no - annual - fee cards, though the rewards only apply to merchandise at participating stores, and the regular rewards rate is less than impressive.

You'll earn a bit less (3 percent on the first $ 6,000 spent annually at U.S. supermarkets, then 1 percent; 2 percent at U.S. gas stations and select U.S. department stores; and 1 percent on all your other purchases) but you won't pay any annual fee.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

The Council states that eating less meat from ruminant animals (such as cattle and lamb) could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food in Denmark by 20 to 35 percent.

That's an increase of less than 0.2 percent over current WTI crude oil prices and 0.7 percent over current NYMEX natural gas prices.

This proven technology has helped shift more electricity generation to natural gas, which emits less nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury and more than 50 percent less carbon dioxide than coal.

They were able to put and keep the focus on CO2 so that most people still don't know it is less than 4 percent of the greenhouse gases or even that water vapor is the most abundant and important greenhouse gas.

In 2012, Irsching 5, a very modern gas - fired plant in Bavaria that is 50.2 percent owned by E.ON, ran less than half of the 4,000 hours needed to be profitable.