Sentences with phrase «raise energy prices»

Others have suggested using punishments for noncompliance in climate treaties, but the punishments often «penalize the penalizer,» as Nordhaus puts it: «if Europe puts sanctions on Russian energy companies, this is likely to raise energy prices in Europe,» he writes (9).

The U.K. Independent reports the government is «facing a multi-billion pound black hole in its budget to pay for new clean energy supplies» that are threatening to raise energy prices and cause instability in the power grid.

A growing number of business owners and taxpayers are mobilizing nationwide against the House - approved cap - and - trade energy bill, which would reduce energy consumption but could raise energy prices and harm small businesses By Joseph Abrams The revolution will not be televised: it's been blinking along on a giant bakery sign in St. Louis, Mo., instead.

Bryson is a model crony capitalist, lifelong professional environmentalist, and leading promoter of cap - and - trade legislation to raise energy prices.

They say the requirement would raise energy prices while lowering economic growth.

Meanwhile three Republicans from Virginia called Obama's proposals a «war on coal,» which would raise energy prices.

Why would any government or religious institution advocate to increase regulations and raise energy prices based on flawed computer projections of climate change that will never come to pass?

Waxman's blunt statement that the goal of cap and trade is to raise energy prices was deeply off - message for green groups, which have long insisted that energy efficiency and conservation would prevent energy prices from rising.

And subsequent administrations are no more likely to propose or stand behind unpopular regulations that will raise energy prices than will the Obama administration.

Nor will governments create or enforce clean energy mandates on utilities that dramatically raise energy prices, which is what Romm's plan would do.

Before you do, though, you should also spend a few minutes to understand why critics say the ACP will raise energy prices, not lower them.

It died in the Senate after Republicans labeled it a «cap - and - tax» plan that would raise energy prices and after House Democrats who voted for it were attacked at town hall meetings back home.

Likewise, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky criticized the plan, calling it a «dagger in the heart of the American middle class» that would raise energy prices and decrease reliability.

«A carbon tax will raise energy prices... but people will find ways to reduce carbon emissions... to come out ahead,» he said.

Agenda 21 is likely a proposal to raise energy prices by Heavily Carbon Taxing them into competition with higher cost and less reliable GREEN ENERGY then altogether eliminating CO2 producing energy sources until electricity can not be produced for 21 of the 24 hours of each day but that won't matter because 3 hours per day is all anyone will be able to afford.

That will raise energy prices.

They make no economic sense because they would seriously decrease US competitiveness, raise energy prices, and restrict US access to its very rich fossil fuel resources when just the opposite policies are needed.

A growing number of business owners and taxpayers are mobilizing nationwide against the House - approved cap - and - trade energy bill, which would reduce energy consumption but could raise energy prices and harm small businesses

The National Review says taxes on American oil and gas companies will discourage domestic energy production and investment and send the companies overseas, and actually raise energy prices.

Today's action by the EPA is the beginning of a regulatory barrage that will destroy jobs, raise energy prices for consumers, and undermine America's global competitiveness.

A carbon tax will raise energy prices, but lower and middle income people, especially, will find ways to reduce carbon emissions so as to come out ahead.

This week, House Democrats are beginning their push for a cap - and - trade scheme that makes big promises, but amounts to little more than a national energy tax that will destroy countless jobs and raise energy prices on families and small businesses already struggling during this recession.

In 2009, Southern Company lobbied hard against the climate bill passed by the House of Representatives — which died the following year in the Senate — on the grounds that it would have raised energy prices too much.

Pelosi used CAGW to raise energy priced when she took power in January 2007.

In such a case present global warming policy, which intentionally raises energy prices, is suicidal.

It is inconceivable that legislation raising energy prices that much will ever pass Congress — witness the about - face of Democrats to the Republican push for offshore oil drilling — even under a Democratic president and Congress.

And utilities would be given trillions in free pollution credits even while raising energy prices for consumers.

The details are commercially confidential, but I have always been careful to disclose that I have this interest in my writing when it is relevant; I am proud that the coal mining on my land contributes to the local and national economy; and that my income from coal is not subsidized and not a drain on the economy through raising energy prices.

Then, on March 31, the day after Waxman, D - Calif., and Rep. Edward Markey, D - Mass., introduced cap and trade legislation, the Senate passed a resolution, 89 - 8, explicitly stating that the Senate will not pass climate legislation that raises energy prices.

«What should have been a question about improving a policy instrument design became a vote for or against raising the carbon price and so raising energy prices in the EU.

«I think the EPA has gone far beyond its mission under the Obama administration, and I think re-concentrating the agency on its core mission of protecting the environment and improving our environmental quality, rather than a huge climate regime, which has very little to do with reducing greenhouse gas emissions or atmospheric concentrations globally but has a lot to do with slowing down the economy through raising energy prices.

«And if people disagree with that, then let them fight the votes and change the Congress, and get a new Congress that believes in raising energy prices for absolutely no environmental result.»

Coal - dependent Poland had threatened to veto any agreement that raised its energy prices — adding to the country's «renegade» image in Brussels.

This costly handout raises energy prices, destabilizes the electric grid, and benefits wealthy wind lobbyists -LSB-...]

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Demand for oil is expected to drop in 2017, the International Energy Agency said in a report on Wednesday, raising further problems for producers as they try to ramp up prices.

A separate index by the Bank of Japan that strips away the effect of energy costs also showed inflation slowing, suggesting that weak consumption and falling import costs are discouraging firms from raising prices for a broad range of goods.

U.S. trade partners and energy firms have warned Commerce that the plan would violate free - trade deals, disrupt supply chains, raise prices and potentially cause layoffs.

Buffett praises Abel for being able to invest billions into wind energy without having to raise prices on consumers.

CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX: CVE) is raising $ 1.5 billion through the sale of 67.5 million common shares in a move aimed at shoring up its balance sheet in the face of oil prices that have fallen to half the level of June.

Devaluation also would raise the price of energy and other essential imports, aggravating the economic squeeze.

Investors have, on balance, concluded that the combination of a shift to very expansionary fiscal policy and major reductions in regulation in sectors ranging from energy to finance to drug pricing will raise demand and reflate the American economy.

«The energy sector posted stronger returns in September due to a rebound in oil prices which helped lift Canadian equities, while the bond market slipped into negative territory after strong Canadian economic growth led the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time in seven years,» said James Rausch, Head of Client Coverage, Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services.

These comments came from the UAE energy minister Suhail Al Mazrouei, who said it's not about raising prices it is about the noble endeavor of working to reduce oversupply.

By: Simone Liedtke Updated 2 hours 57 minutes ago Aim - listed Ncondezi Energy has raised # 950 000, before expenses, through a conditional placing of 15.2 - million ordinary shares at a price of 6.25 p apiece.

Factories in the euro zone raised their prices in July as energy costs swelled, pointing to further upward pressure on consumer prices in the currency bloc later this year.

The turn higher in the Loonie already reflects this more stable monetary policy environment, and a lift in energy prices may be susceptible to a move lower if the Fed raises rates sooner than anticipated, or if oil swoons.

STRUGGLING manufacturing firms are experiencing a carbon tax squeeze, the greenhouse scheme adding 14.5 per cent to energy bills, but many are unwilling to raise prices.

The Chavez approach — to raise taxes on oil companies and use a spike in energy prices to fund literacy and health programmes for the poor — prompted a hostile reaction from the Bush administration.

Phil glad you raised the energy issue... hope you will recognize that while Faux News blamed Obama for causing high gas prices three years ago they are silent right now in terms of giving him credit for solutions.

The government has denied it is resorting to begging the «big six» energy companies to stop raising prices until 2015, prompting an avalanche of scorn from the left.