Cutting greenhouse gas emissions may also prove expensive, though that depends on how it is done.
He's been driving for nearly 11 years, and the gas prices are directly cutting into his wallet.
Americans, was intended to punish Azerbaijan for cutting off gas supplies to Armenia.
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Cutting greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Scottish government's climate change targets will require some tough choices in future.
And, now that the world is talking seriously about cutting greenhouse gas emissions, solar may have its day in the sun.
But if the situation is getting worse, there may be other steps that should be taken aside from just cutting greenhouse gas use.
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Not only is Egypt denying itself hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues by cutting off gas shipments to Israel, (and Jordan, Syria and Lebanon).
Additionally, recent news of Chesapeake Energy cutting natural gas production, an action that may be followed by other producers, will also help to alleviate oversupply problems.
"He came to us before the 2008 election and said that everyone keeps talking about reducing oil reliance and cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but no one knows which approaches are more cost-effective than others, " says Phil Sharp, president of RFF.
Interface built the carpet industry's most oil-independent cost structure while cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 82%.
One example is a plan to retrofit every building in Canada and so reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions, thus drastically cutting Canada's energy bill.
Groups in favor of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions to reduce the threat posed by climate change say far deeper reductions than that 17% are needed.
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Under Kyoto, the developed countries committed to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by varying amounts, which averaged out to a 5.2% reduction below 1990 emission levels.
Atop a new Russia determined to rebuild its old empire, Mr. Putin decided to go for the jugular with Ukraine -- cutting off the gas, in the middle of winter, just before the Orthodox Christmas.
By temporarily cutting off natural gas supplies to the western-leaning government of Viktor Yushchenko and ignoring standing contractual obligations, Moscow gave an early glimpse of how its new energy-based foreign policy could be used to persuade and punish.
The wider use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has unleashed a vast supply of natural gas from the shale-rock formations across the U.S., forcing down domestic prices, cutting the need for overseas imports and making gas-exporting nations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean a less important piece in the U.S. energy puzzle.
This would create a fluid that, although a gas, would have a similar density and cutting power to that of water.
High crude oil prices would result in high fees charged by MasterCard, cutting into the margins of the gas station owner.
Last winter Gazprom appeared to blackmail Ukraine's new pro-Western government by cutting off the country's gas amid a dispute over prices.
Mr. McClendon pledged that it was "now time to transition" from being an aggressive company that discovered and leased new oil and gas fields to one that would focus on cutting costs and delivering "exceptional returns" for investors.
He might as well claim that cutting subsidies for public transit will reduce gas prices.
Reducing fouling will save fuel, in turn saving money, as well as cutting shipping's contribution to greenhouse-gas emissions.
He promised to accelerate many of those actions while cutting costs further in the face of higher gas prices and material costs.
And that's why my administration will keep cutting red tape and speeding up new oil and gas permits.
Does the President think that cutting those subsidies to oil companies would do anything to affect gas prices in the short term?
Look at Seattle, where the Mariners saved themselves a million dollars by drastically cutting their energy usage ( over five years, a 45% reduction in natural gas usage, a 30% reduction in electricity, and a 25% reduction in water usage).
Virginia-based OPower has won many contracts with utilities, such as San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric, to use personalized data, competition and even social media to prod consumers into cutting their electricity consumption.
But developing countries have no incentive to stop cutting down their forests, and tropical deforestation accounts for around 20% of total annual greenhouse-gas emissions.
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