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Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2020
This decline was due almost entirely to a drop in coal consumption. Coal-fired power generation fell by a record 18% year-on-year to its lowest level since 1975. An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%.
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Additional fees and charges added to electricity prices. Implementing a price cap for retailers. We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. The unit cost of Gas in the UK is 4 times the price of US Gas. – Price of bread.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 18, 2023
When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. It must deliver power to people when they need it, where they need it, and at a manageable price. Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. But the average oil price remains high, approaching $120/barrel (in year-2010 dollars) in 2035. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Demand for mobility is strongly correlated with incomes and fuel prices.
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2009
Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
An (expected) high price tag. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. The reason theyre starting with high priced sports cars is because aiming at that market is the easiest way for them to fund R&D and scale up production so they can make smaller more practical EVs for the masses.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it?
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