Sentences with phrase «rising fuel prices such»

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Metcash needs to invest heavily to cut grocery prices but it is doing so in an environment of deflation, rising utility costs and discounting in key areas, such as fuel, by its rivals.

Rising prices have sparked opposition - backed street protests and left the government little elbowroom to push through financial reforms such as easing fuel price controls.

Guided by the fundamental indicators such as rise in price of Gasoline, Gasoil and Brent crude on the international oil market, the country's fuel stock as well as the fair - stability of the country's local currency against the U.S. Dollar; the Institute for Energy Security (IES) sees fuel prices primed to rise again on the local market by up to 2.5 %.

And as Millard - Ball and Schipper note, although fuel prices have been rising slowly since 2002, trends such as «peak car» predate the dramatic oil - price fluctuations we have experienced since 2007.

Blessed will be the countries (such as Germany) that will use rising fuel prices as the impetus to switch to alternative, renewable energy sources, but don't get your hopes up because America, China, India, Brazil and Russia will not likely follow suit.

Non-food plant sources, such as jatropha and camelina, are promising, but difficult to produce in large quantities and can end up displacing food crops or lead to deforestation if the price of fuel rises high enough.

Second, the prices of fossil fuels have to rise, either because reserves become depleted or through the passage of regulatory encumbrances, such as a massive carbon tax.

Authoritative sources such as EarthTrack have placed the fossil fuel industry's tax and fiscal subsidies at around $ 25 billion a year, a figure that pales beside the roughly $ 1,000 billion (one trillion dollars) paid annually for coal, oil and natural gas burned in the U.S. Do the math: withdrawing those subsidies would lead to at most a 2 - 3 percent rise in the market prices of fossil fuels — scant incentive to reduce their use and concomitant emissions of CO2.

I think if we use more clean remewables and another rise in fossil fuel prices which it looks like we will according to most economists, then we will hold off such peaks for a awhile longer.

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.

Costs to farmers are also expected to rise, as the price of land rises and the cost of other inputs, such as fertilizer and fuel oil, rise.

New condo developments — high - rise towers offering amenities such as children's playrooms and rooftop gardens — helped fuel price gains, even as they accounted for only 10.6 percent of sales in the first quarter.

New condo developments — high - rise towers offering amenities such as children's playrooms and rooftop gardens — helped fuel price gains, even as they accounted for only 10.6 percent of sales in the first quarter, Miller said.

Developers and economists alike say condo prices, up 21 per cent in a year according to the Toronto Real Estate Board, can not keep rising at such a pace, in part because it was their relative affordability compared to single - family homes that fueled the boom in the first place.

Rising fuel prices have increased interest in hybrid - electric vehicles, or HEVs, such as Toyota's fuel - stingy Prius sedan.