Some carmakers are forming partnerships with battery-makers to ensure supplies and gain access to technology.
He said the UK should do more to help smallhold farmers in developing countries to ensure supplies were maintained.
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Some garages ran dry but retailers said they were coping and normal deliveries would ensure supplies were replenished.
Under the proposed legislation European gas companies would be required to ensure supplies to householders in cases of extreme temperatures during a seven-day peak period, or during any period of at least 30 days of exceptionally high demand.
Recent moves by big oil and gas consumers such as India and China, keen to acquire the energy assets that they believe will ensure supplies for their booming economies, have further limited the opportunity for the oil majors to replenish reserves.
Oil companies are under pressure to ensure stable supplies and meet rising emission standards.
The US believes oil prices should be set by market forces in order to ensure adequate supplies.
Mr. Jagdale noted the hog farms will help ensure steady supplies and could keep costs down for the combined company.
Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi said countries around the world needed to work together to ensure energy supplies remained "secure and reasonably priced".
It is building reservoirs on high-mountain lake areas to ensure water supplies for the locals and this activity is likely to continue until well into 2013.
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But there is a concession to sceptics about the government's ambitious targets, and the need to secure reliable baseload capacity to ensure power supplies when the wind drops and turbines stop working.
Nurses worked with singular focus on the patients in front of them, support staff hustled to ensure that supplies were available and equipment at the ready, and administrators organized and systematized the care.
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We have worked very aggressively to engage producers to be able to encourage their production and ensure that adequate supplies are getting onto the market.
Companies are turning to exploration to ensure future coffee supplies because production has leveled off even as demand has increased, causing coffee-bean prices to quadruple since 2001.
Humanitarian assistance sometimes means the difference between life and death, and that is why courageous men and women have been working day and night to ensure that these supplies are reaching those who need it most.
Traditionally, utilities and nuclear reactors would buy uranium supplies far in advance of the actual delivery to ensure they had sufficient future supplies.
At the UN, Mr Mitchell will discuss plans to increase aid and medical supplies and ensure better access.
Under any realistic scenario, Israel possesses ample supplies to ensure energy security in the power sector for a generation.
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In a speech to a Small Business Administration conference in Washington, Bush announced five proposals focusing on technology to ensure affordable and reliable supplies of energy.
Knowing this, we must see, and contribute to, a concerted effort to ensure health services and supplies reach the most vulnerable children and communities where the greatest needs exist.
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At the requests of New York and New Jersey, FEMA continues to deliver commodities including food, water, blankets, generators and others resources to distribution points across the region impacted by Sandy, and FEMA continues to pre-position additional resources and supplies to ensure they are in place if needed by our state and local partners to respond to the coastal low.
Meanwhile, Yukos, a Russian oil company, is positioning itself to buy generating capacity, and thus ensure control of its electricity supplies.
So UN peacekeepers may also be needed to police the oft-broken ceasefire with Darfur's rebels and to ensure that food and other supplies get through.
Weather officials say the cyclone now appears weakening - but the huge effort to rebuild homes and ensure adequate food and medical supplies is only just beginning.
"We urge you to immediately take steps to boost heating oil supplies and to ensure that adequate reserves are available on the East Coast by September, " the 34 lawmakers said in letter to the oil firms.
And Saudi Arabia, the only country with much spare capacity, has promised to ensure that the world has adequate supplies.
He said it was necessary to stop supplies of super unleaded to ensure the work could be carried out safely.
The more serious side of Mr Coetzee's exploits was the mapping of these remote rivers and analysis of their water, to help ensure that villagers had clean, accessible supplies.
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The minister said the board had put arrangements in place to ensure that vulnerable people and residential homes needing supplies have sufficient drinking water.
The Partnership will offer a framework for consolidating and expanding energy and environmental cooperation across existing regional forums to advance efforts to ensure affordable, secure, and cleaner energy supplies for the region.
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