Sentences with phrase «skyrocketing costs of oil»

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That year, drillers packed into the Permian basin in western Texas, where the cost of producing oil is low but the price tag on land — and the companies who own it — has skyrocketed.

10 years ago no one ever thought of making an alternative fuel vehicle because gas prices and the cost to change a car's engine keep the overall cost of acceptance too high, but now, as oil and gas prices skyrocket, they're beginning to seep into the awareness of the general public..

since we are already on the plateau of peak oil, with the oncoming downslope more or less in sight, the cost of energy is going to continue to skyrocket regardless of government's intervention or subsidy for any particular forms of alternative energies.

As the price of oil has soared, Textisur's operating costs have skyrocketed.

While the rising cost of oil has the price of gasoline skyrocketing faster than global warming is melting glaciers, people everywhere are preparing for cross-country road trips to Grand Canyon National Park and summer camps in Maine.

Moore's Law Cuts Cost of Computing, and Therefore Cost of Everything Else Our use of IT is skyrocketing, but Bill Gross of Idealab showed that while everything else is going up in resource consumption - from water to oil to minerals - computing is going down.

In short, the plummeting cost and skyrocketing efficiency of both wind and solar technologies have proved the peak oil theorists like Richard Heinberg wrong.