Sentences with phrase «term energy independence»

However, the only route to long - term energy independence is through domestic renewable energy sources.

Any long term energy independence that oil shale production may provide will be at the cost of furthering global climate change and increasing environmental degradation of U.S. public lands.

Our clean energy initiatives will facilitate local job growth, reduce greenhouse gas pollution, help improve public health, and ensure the State's long - term energy independence.»

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Yet, such assumptions are exactly how U.S. shale drilling is being talked about in the minds of non-geologists who want to hype stocks and use patriotic terms like «energy independence.»

The high price of this strategy in terms of energy use is justified, McGowan argues, by advantages such as independence from the environment, readiness for action and enhanced muscle performance.

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

My 1st boss on The Ford Administration's «Energy Policy Staff of the Executive Office of The President» (was how the R's billed us, the authors, in the Year following the Crash publication of R. Nixon's «PROJECT INDEPENDENCE REPORT» — a term the Senior folks thereabouts had come to hate, and so by the Ford years became: «The National Energy Review»), had A) the following, «Desiderata» * posted upon his office wall, including this bit:

Promises «energy independence» by the end of his second term.

Now, after years of inaction, and in the face of public frustration over rising gas prices, the only energy proposal he's really promoting is more offshore drilling — a position he recently adopted that has become the centerpiece of his plan, and one that will not make a real dent in current gas prices or meet the long - term challenge of energy independence.

(9) The term «Smart Grid» has the meaning provided by section 1301 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (15 U.S.C. 17381).

«(H) Marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy, as that term is defined in section 632 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 1energy, as that term is defined in section 632 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 1Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17211).

-- The term «plug - in electric drive vehicle» shall have the definition of such term in section 131 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

DG: It took eleven or twelve clicks on the mouse to be able to find the term «global warming» somewhere on John Kerry's website, and it was hidden in there under «Energy Independence.»

Behind - the - meter, the issue of long - term cost reduction and energy independence are big drivers for energy storage, Shaffer argues.

-- In this section, the term «marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy» has the meaning given the term in section 632 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 1energy» has the meaning given the term in section 632 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 1Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17211).

-- The term «smart grid» means smart grid (within the meaning of title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17381 et seq.)-RRB-.

-- The term «eligible unit of local government» has the meaning given the term in section 541 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17151).

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I can not hell but thin that coal / methane to liquid fuels and using nuclear / coal for 90 % of base load would be the best long term solution to energy independence.

We look forward to continuing to advocate for the clean energy economy that has created 23,000 jobs, lowered electric bills, cultivated a more resilient rural economy, and increased energy independence — both now and in the long - term.

A. It's a step in the right direction on climate and in terms of energy independence.

If Barack Obama were saying, as John McCain has, that offshore oil drilling will reduce energy prices in the short term, or that it is a real solution to U.S. energy independence, then I might feel more strongly about this.

I can see the energy independence pull on tapping into these fuel sources, but frankly any government which advocates developing oil shale or tar sands seriously loses its credibility in terms of its commitment to tackling climate change and on the environment more broadly.

But the whole conversation is framed in unreal terms: nuclear power, like renewables that generate electricity, has almost nothing to do with energy independence.

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Substituting natural gas for petroleum may buy the US a measure of energy independence in the short term, but will not in the mid to long term.

Forget Energy Independence Rhetoric, This is About Political Compromise All of which makes me wonder, as I have for some time, whether the potential risks of the exploration in terms of spills and other pollution really are worth the tiny additional supply to be gained.

However the part about natural gas needs to be reconsidered: There are better uses for natural gas, there are dirtier fuels to displace, it isn't nearly as good a transportation fuel as is claimed, it won't bring much greater energy independence, and it isn't really a viable long term solution to our energy problems.