Sentences with phrase «percentages of alternative fuel»
The Center and Bluewater Network filed a lawsuit in federal court in April 2005 against 14 federal agencies for their continuing failure to implement the EPAct, by not purchasing the legally required percentages of alternative fuel vehicles for their federal vehicle fleets.
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This easily outpaced the percentage of respondents who selected a hydrogen fuel - cell vehicle (15.8 percent), an ethanol / flex fuel vehicle (14.5 percent), or a hybrid (13.8 percent) as their most likely alternative - fuel vehicle purchase.
When considering this question bear in mind that there are no economical «equivalents» to crude oil, alternative (bio) fuels and generation technologies can at best provide a few percentage points of the energy derived from fossil fuels.
If fossil power is cheap enough that there are only x % households in fuel poverty (Wiki: In the UK, fuel poverty is said to occur when in order to heat its home to an adequate standard of warmth a household needs to spend more than 10 % of its income to maintain an adequate heating regime), but the alternative carbon - free power increases the percentage of households by 10 % there are negative consequences to not using fossil power.
Joule's solar technology is bypassing these challenges while converting a waste stream into cost - competitive hydrocarbon fuels, which will have far greater and faster impact than low - percentage blendstocks or transportation alternatives that require major infrastructure overhaul,» said William J. Sims, President and CEO of Joule.
Excess of percentage over cost depletion Expensing of exploration and development costs Alternative (nonconventional) fuel production credit Oil and gas exception from passive loss limitation Credit for enhanced oil recovery costs Expensing of tertiary injectants
It is because so little energy is being used, and because alternatives are ruled out ab initio (the model contains no nuclear power, and no technology for storing away carbon emissions from fossil fuels; natural gas prices rise strongly and coal plants are retired well before they are clapped out) that the model ends up with such a high percentage of renewables; indeed given the premise it's slightly surprising it doesn't end up with even more.
It's unclear exactly what percentage of that fleet is required to be alternative fuel vehicles because some agencies are exempt from the purchasing requirements of the 1992 energy law.