Sentences with phrase «pretty much a gas»

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I think it's pretty much a given at this point that gas is going to be expensive.

Northwest Natural Gas is pretty much a self explanatory title for this company.

I must admit that I don't cook on a gas grill much these days, but I have in the past and always found those lame - o smoker boxes to be pretty useless.

And that his Overeem fight camp was 5 round fight camp, he clearly has spent a lot of time being prepared, how much will it work against Stipe, we don't know, but i'm pretty sure he won't gas in first like many seem to think.

I also don't like the gas fumes, the noise or the air pollution they create, so I've somehow managed to get out of mowing the lawn both as a child and as an adult — in other words pretty much all of my life.

Still feeling the effects of the gas and air and the strong pain killer I had been given after the birth meant this first feed was pretty much pain free.

It is pretty much impossible to prevent gas during pregnancy.

Although it's uncomfortable to walk around everywhere with a gas mask on, it pretty much solved the chemical weapon problem.

In some ways, a California company seems an odd choice for an upstate New York scientist who was determined to put down roots, but with a 90 % market share of gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers, applying to Thermo Finnigan was pretty much a no - brainer for someone with Burdett's experience, and it worked out.

By 1995 or so, theorists pretty much knew how to make terrestrial planets, even gas giants.

But it's a strong reminder that this powerful, long - lived greenhouse gas is continuing to rise, pretty much unchecked.

The act of swallowing huge chunks of food without chewing until your food pretty much liquefies can result in gas, bloating, and stomach pain.

This car was pretty much equipped exactly as I would order it - love the candy apple red, I thought the cloth seats were attractive and seemed durable, though I'd pocket the $ 1850 for AWD in favor of a set of snow tires and save on gas as well.

No such problem in the ZL1, but not much in the way of gas savings, either: Our mileage ran pretty close to the grim EPA ratings of 12 mpg city, 20 highway for the automatic, and 14 city and 20 highway for the six - speed manual.

The throttle usually does follow pretty much what you are telling the gas pedal, but that doesn't mean it does it exactly.

The gas engine feels more responsive off the line and on the road than the diesel and is quieter at pretty much every cruising speed.

The team recently revealed that this power unit is more efficient than pretty much any other gas - powered internal - combustion engine.

Excitement — real excitement — over a new American sedan pretty much evaporated after the first gas crisis of the 1970s.

Thing is, it's pretty quick, and the gas - to - electric handoff is completely seamless (EV to gas not as much).

It also gets pretty good gas mileage, around 25 - 30 mpg on highway and not too much worse in the city.

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.

The steering is meaty and pretty talkative, even though there's the occasional light torque steer when you step on the gas pedal with too much conviction.

That's pretty good, and if you're more passionate about your driving experience than you are about saving money on gas, you don't have to give up much gas money to get the extra engine power.

The AC is lacking punch, The steering is ultra light, the handling even with SE trim is floaty, build quality is better than last gen but not by much, the brakes are pretty much dead if one must make a sudden stop from say 50 mph, lots of fade, the gas mileage is horrible even when taking it easy on the engine.

Gas mileage seems pretty good for a small SUV (Very small) Bad: Fit and finish Seating position is hard short Seats The telescoping steering wheel is worthless it rattles You can't see out of it, and the parking sensors indicate you are too close at nearly 2ft from something It's slow (The Volt feels like a corvette in comparison) It's expensive (There are a lot of MUCH better options for less) Due to it's shape you can't get anything in the hatch area Controls aren't well laid out..

And that's pretty clear message to investors that too much of a volatile sector like oil and gas is not a great idea for your investment portfolio.

For instance, $ 300 a month pays pretty much all of my utilities each month (internet, gas, electric, water).

1) Canada has pretty much what everyone else wants; forestry, oil, natural gas, metals, water and a sound financial sector to glue it all together.

Northwest Natural Gas is pretty much a self explanatory title for this company.

As for the perennial question «gas or electric,» it's pretty much of a no - brainer for anyone with serious culinary aspirations.

This is a Visa credit card so it is accepted pretty much anywhere and it gives you a very high 4 % cash back on gas and grocery spending.

They pretty much duplicate the same things that the Arrival considers travel, but they throw in a few terrific items like gas, tolls, parking — and, I'm really curious what «and more» means.

Instead he is likely referring to the basic and pretty much uncontested facts that i) CO2 and other greenhouse gases have increased due to human activity.

Of course, whether the Prius pays for itself in the current market uncorrected for externalities is a different question than whether it would pay for itself once you accounted for the price of gas if it included all the environmental costs and much of the cost of the Iraq War (which, even if not directly about oil, is really pretty much about oil in the sense that it is what makes that whole region of important strategic interest to us).

The point of all this is that there's even more evidence now — as Climate Progress puts it, «pretty much every major poll in the past six months makes clear that the public supports climate and energy legislation because it achieves multiple benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions» — that people want to get away from fossil fuels and move towards clean energy.

If Chevron Corp. has caused climate change and needs to pay for its damage, so should pretty much every company that has ever explored for oil and gas near North America, as well as manufacturers of cars and equipment that burn fuel, plus consumers.

The cost of fossil fuels is pretty much the cost of the coal, oil and gas, although, of course, there are infrastructure costs, but a reasonable estimate (and Eli is the most reasonable bunny you could ever meet, as a colleague just wrote, reasonably insane perhaps, but reasonable nonetheless).

Much depends on the price of natural gas, and looking at the data, the supply / demand picture looks pretty bleak.

When it comes to policy, it's pretty much impossible to limit the amounts of oil, gas and coal used unless one comes up with a superior way of replacing them.

Frankly, with these preconditions, it seems that China's current position actually remains pretty much what it has always been: It will accept legally binding limits on its greenhouse gas emissions when Hell freezes over.

Since pretty much the start of the National Electricity Market more than a decade ago, the Australian power industry has regarded the annual Electricity Statement of Opportunities (ESOO) as their bible to help pinpoint where a new coal or gas - fired generator might be needed to meet rising demand.

Note well that the actual physicists on the list are pretty much unanimous that the result is incorrect, and the only people on the thread who disagree are those that either don't know the laws of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics well enough to (for example) derive the Ideal Gas law in the first place or do and defend the actual algebra required to support their assertions.

If warming prior to 1960 is 0.5 or greater, pretty much a given with the tropical reconstruction, Solar, aerosols, land use etc. can have have more impact than CO2 equivalent gases so your Half or complete baked explanation is going to need dLOD, fair dust and unicorns to get all the «consensus» players on the same page.

To put it yet another way, the average buoyant forces that have to be exerted, the density and pressure profile, and all of the thermodynamic properties of the gas in the centrifuge are pretty much determined by the horrendously large value of effective g in the centrifuge.

For all of its warnings, and despite a steady escalation of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, the planet's average surface temperature has remained pretty much the same for the last 15 years.

It also lent itself much more directly than coal to being converted into food for people.The use of oil powered farming machines, oil and gas (an oil byproduct) based herbicides, insecticides, and fertilizers, and oil based long distance food transport, has allowed us to convert oil into food pretty directly.

But in the near term, «things have come to a standstill, pretty much, while all attention is focused on the oil and gas,» Lanard said.

(The United States has been essentially more successful than any other country in the world in cutting growth in CO2 emissions, pretty much entirely because of a shift to natural gas.)

Pennsylvania's skyrocketing natural gas production pretty much illustrates the arc of America's ongoing energy renaissance:

However, if one converts the total effects of all greenhouse gases, aerosols, etc. into an equivalent increase in CO2 concentration (by reference to their effective radiative forcing RF, that from a doubling of CO2 being F2xCO2), then what you suggest would be pretty much in line with the generic definition of TCR in Section 10.8.1 of AR5 WGI: