The main obstacles cited by the energy executives surveyed speak for themselves: opposition to expanded drilling in places such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (cited by 33%), environmental concerns (16%) and a lack of investment in energy due to low commodity prices (14%).
Media members would have doubtless decried this lack of energy in the executive, but does anyone really think we have a recessionary rush to housing and flat to down markets if Bush promises to maintain what Reagan and Clinton handed him in the form of a strong dollar and lower prices of gold, oil and other commodities?
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Speaking to the BBC, Richard Lloyd of consumer group Which? criticised the opacity and lack of competition in the energy market.
British Gas has said it is simplifying its tariffs after acknowledging a lack of public trust in the energy industry.
De Soto argues that the "surprise revolution"--the movement of millions from the countryside to cities--has been choked in its potential for uplift not because slum dwellers lack talent or energy but because the legal systems in their new locales don't allow them to be secure in ownership and accumulate wealth.
The answer appears to lie not in a lack of enthusiasm or vision, but in the ability for energy and political actors on all sides of the discussion to deal with the technical limitations and how to pay for it.
Yes, a lack of real innovation in autos creates energy demands that we struggle to fulfil.
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Green MP Caroline Lucas bemoaned the lack of any mention of renewable energy in the Budget.
What the finished pieces lack in highly milled precision, they gain in energy.
The buy-green option will also encourage other companies, which may have been reluctant to locate in Utah because of the lack of renewable energy options, to give the state a second look.
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Another perk for wind energy in the Southeast is its lack of thirst, Kelley adds.
New York seemed to lack the required energy and urgency to take advantage in Game 4.
While the city continues to struggle with high unemployment, abandoned buildings, suffering schools and lack of infrastructure, there is a new energy in these downtown neighborhoods that suggests a gradual shift.
McCain also discussed nuclear energy -- namely the lack of investment in the controversial technology.
The report complained of a lack of necessary data, because energy audits are not mandatory in Italy and Lithuania.
The lack of focus on pure clean energy helped both SRIGX and PZD in 2008.
Haiti doesn't lack for entrepreneurial energy, as the vibrant and increasingly prosperous Haitian community in the U.S. attests.
Yet there remains a disconnect between the events in the gulf and both consumer behavior (in terms of energy usage) and energy policy (or lack thereof).
Many of Europe's leading industrialists laid out an array of problems facing the continent's manufacturers, from more expensive energy compared with US competitors to the lack of financing, especially in countries such as Italy and Spain for small companies.
De-emphasizing costly issues of supply, the program is focusing on three logistical bottlenecks: huge gaps in land law that make it impossible to guarantee investments, lack of information technology in the rural areas that make coordination and transport impossible, and the energy poverty of these same areas.
He was supposed to be the Republican frontrunner, but he has been plagued by criticism that he seems to lack energy and the fire of the insurgent John McCain who nearly derailed the Bush juggernaut in the 2000 presidential campaign.
This began under President Clinton's first Energy Secretary, Hazel O'Leary a woman whose lack of expertise in the nuclear weapons arena was matched by her utter disdain for that part of her portfolio, and for those who had devoted their professional lives to it.
Back home in Guatemala, he founded Quetsol, an energy company offering a simple solution to the lack of electricity.
What they lack are the structures and institutions that enable this energy to be channeled--and rewarded--in ways that lead to sustained economic growth.
At the heart of all of this is a lack of faith that current political leadership has much of a real plan for the future of renewable energy in Europe.
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Chinese production will fill much of any global aluminum output gap, but support nevertheless will come from a lack of cheap energy and environmental and political issues, including the time it takes to build a smelter in Western nations, Vazquez said.
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While auto industry wages in Brazil have risen 125% in ten years, productivity has increased only 22% due to a lack of automation, poor training and high energy and steel costs.
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