It could be as simple as a loose gas cap that needs tightening.
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However, if the solution is a simple DIY remedy like tightening your gas cap, you can go ahead and turn off the light with the app itself, saving you time and money.
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Many of these gadgets can be used to turn off a check engine light, which can be a money-saver if you avoid a trip to the garage simply because the gas cap was loose, a common cause of check engine alerts.
Until recently, bonus rewards where limited to just one item per purchase, but the chain recently lifted the cap as gas prices started climbing.
But 12 states, three cities, 13 environmental groups and a ski resort want the EPA to cap the gas in an effort to help slow global warming.
Such a program would cap greenhouse gas emissions at certain levels, and allow more efficient energy producers to sell emissions permits to other, less efficient companies, thereby creating market-wide incentives to reduce carbon output.
Still, in Connecticut, State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney (R-Fairfield), has been mounting a spirited campaign to "cut and cap the gas tax", which at 70.8 cents a gallon (including the federal levy) is the highest in the region.
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It was no wonder that the energy bill that passed Congress did not include a cap on greenhouse gas emissions.
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In fact, the Obama Administration desperately tried and failed to increase oil and gas prices via cap and trade last year.
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In terms of containment right now, the top cap is drawing oil and gas to the surface to -- from the LMR -- the lower marine riser cap to the Enterprise.
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The European Union, which already restricts greenhouse-gas emissions through a cap-and-trade scheme, unveiled further incentives for CCS last year.
Not long after the California energy crisis brought deregulation screeching to a halt in 2000, utilities began predicting that legislation putting a cap on greenhouse-gas emissions would be the catalyst for change.
Nevertheless, whether Europe will follow through on suggestions to cap its dependence on Russian gas is open to question.
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Richardson also proposes the implementation of a market-based cap and trade system for greenhouse gas emissions in order to create incentives for the electric and industrial sectors to make significant reductions in their carbon emissions.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, defying opposition from business lobbies and some fellow Republicans, agreed with Democrats who control the California legislature to cap the state's greenhouse-gas emissions and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% by 2020.
This is a big year for lobbying, and natural gas producers could indeed benefit from a cap-and-trade bill because it would create an incentive to rely less on electricity generated by traditional coal-fired power plants.
Converteam is competing in the manufacture of products for use in gas pipelines and electricity grids with large-cap companies in Europe like Siemens AG and ABB Ltd.
What will lead us there are directed government investments in energy innovation, in which a smart user fee on energy consumption or carbon emissions can play an important, but fundamentally different (and less central role) as envisioned by conventional cap and trade, carbon tax, and gas tax proponents.
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One of the most damaging proposals is a cap-and-trade system to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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It could include revenues derived from a yet-to-be created "cap-and-trade" system to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
By the same token, he had supported a regional cap-and-trade scheme to trim greenhouse-gas emissions in Massachusetts before renouncing it late in his governorship.
The bill calls for a cap-and-trade system designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 66% by the year 2050, as has been touted by its supporters.
On energy, he supports a "cap-and-trade" system to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but the details of that system will provide fodder for a major--and possibly protracted--lobbying war during the next Congress.
The rule for existing sources, now under development, would work like this: Because coal and gas are combined in a single category, the EPA would cap an average rate of, say, 1, 400 pounds of CO2 per megawatt-hour.
The cap is usually expressed in terms of a certain amount of greenhouse gas emissions permitted to be emitted in one year.
He called for a cap-and-trade system to reduce the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions.
The cap-and-trade scheme he wanted to adopt to cut greenhouse-gas emissions evaporated in the febrile air of Congress.
The permits allow the companies that own them to produce greenhouse gas, and by issuing a fixed number of permits, the EU hopes to cap overall emissions.
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