That would cut back on the fuel supply for the economy and the market.
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These are facing delays over land acquisition, fuel supply and environmental issues, the minister said.
Between 2000 and 2008 it shot from 1% to 7% of America's fuel supply.
The aim: increase the non-fossil fuel supply component to 15% of the total primary energy demand by 2020.
In 2010, oil companies were under legal mandate to blend 12 billion gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply.
That should also address some of the concerns that we've seen about the disruption of the fuel supply chain.
Using the stalk of the corn plant instead of the kernels could open up a limitless, renewable fuel supply.
So this will also address the diesel fuel supply issue that's existential there.
We can no longer be dependent on these dictators in the Middle East and North Africa for our fuel supply.
So that is a 28% reduction in gasoline consumption with a supply of ethanol equalling only 5% of the total fuel supply.
Today, it is barreling into interstellar space some 14 billion kilometers from Earth and has only burned through about half of its fuel supply.
So the fuel consumption reduction with the EDIE with 10% of the fuel supply coming form ethanol would yield a gasoline consumption reduction of 33%.
If they have an ongoing fuel supply for it, because every year and a half or two years most reactors have to be replenished with fuel.
"This is a critically important step to help ensure New York's fuel supply remains flowing and does not compound an emergency, " said Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi.
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"During the 1973 Arab oil embargo Brazil was importing almost 80 percent of its fuel supply, " notes Mr. Luft, director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.
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Instead of mandating 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol in the fuel supply by 2010, the new mandate was for 12 billion gallons in 2010 and 15 billion gallons by 2015.
Numerous U.S. refineries have closed or are for sale right now, a reaction to lower gasoline demand from American drivers and the rampant additions of ethanol to the fuel supply.
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But the DECC report, compiled by consultants Deloitte, concluded that UK retail sector had "more than enough capacity to meet fuel supply shocks until contingency measures can be put in place".
"It's understandable that some people want to believe in 'energy independence, ' " Cavaney says, noting that 60% of U.S. oil will need to be imported by 2030, even with a diversified fuel supply.
The vulnerability of fuel supply lines are notorious.
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Traders would love to turn the risks faced by suppliers, transmitters and retailers of electricity into financial products, so that they could hedge the hazards of weather, fuel supply and wind, and settle up in cash rather than in actual electricity.
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Fears are growing that fewer petrol stations, lower reserves and a rise in the number of cars on the road from 27 million to 35 million over the last 15 years, is putting too much pressure on the fuel supply network.
The oil industry is legally obligated to blend more than 12.5 billion gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply in 2011 (increasing to 15 billion gallons in 2015) even if the tax credit expires as scheduled at the end of the year.
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The renewable fuel standard (RFS) mandates that a portion of the fuel supply be composed of an alternative fuel, in this case advanced biofuels (similar to the RFS included in the US Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which gradually phases in biofuels over 15 years).
In Yerevan, Armenia, where I was last May, I noticed buses and lorries resplendent with rusty-looking cylinders of gas as their fuel supply, which is more cheaply obtained than liquid fuels, but I emphasise that it is petroleum gas (mainly propane and butane) that is used there and not biogas.
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Automakers and the fuel-supply industry are already dealing with a multitude of imperatives more fuel-efficient cars, more biofuels, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, pure electric vehicles.
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Any gasoline or other fuel-supply crunches probably will be isolated, said Andrew Lipow, president of consulting firm Lipow Oil Associates.
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