Earlier this year, Whole Foods ( WFMI) became the first Fortune 500 company to announce it would attempt to reduce its consumption of fuel derived from the oil sands.
Under Chavez, Baduel believes the situation is even worse because of "exorbitant public expenditures, the recurrence of government deficits even at times of record-high oil prices, the extreme vulnerability of foreign investments, exceedingly high import tariffs, and our increased domestic consumption of fuel at laughably low prices".
Much of the Pentagon's fuel goes to the air force, however, and reducing the consumption of jet fuel is much more difficult.
Demand for natural gas is set to rise in the U.S. as power plants and the industrial sector increase their consumption of the fuel.
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In short, it should establish a carbon management paradigm that provides incentives to minimize emissions from both fuel production and fuel consumption regardless of what the fuel is called.
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%.
Among them: enactment of a national speed limit of 65 miles per hour, freight industry participation in an Environmental Protection Agency program to reduce fuel consumption, and a reduction of highway congestion by raising the fuel tax if necessary.
And this matters, as transportation accounts for 70% of U.S. fuel consumption, and 30% of U.S. greenhouse gases.
After the test on the public roads in Spain, the project is now entering a new phase with the focus on analysis of fuel consumption.
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And in terms of fuel consumption, railroads are more than 10 times as efficient as trucks and about 30 times more efficient than airfreight, according to the Dept. of Energy.
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Using all sorts of data points related to fuel consumption, routes, and times of day companies can give their drivers more efficient routes and cut down on hard braking, hard acceleration, and idling, the three biggest wastes of fuel and contributors to CO2 emissions.
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Even more dramatic fuel savings can be achieved - both in terms of the costs and the consumption of foreign oil - if millions of Americans start driving not just fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles, but FFV-capable plug-in hybrids (PIH) with 500 mile-per-gallon-of-gasoline (mpgg) performance.
But biofuels could account for 30% of all fuel consumption by 2020, some sources predict.
He reckons Boeing has squeezed 8% better fuel consumption out of its 737s in the past decade and more will be possible.
Currently, biofuels account for just 2% of all fuel consumption.
Those estimates are based on full fuel-cycles, combine all steps in the use of a fuel from production to consumption, and include carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane, the three major greenhouse gases emitted by motor vehicles.
Domestic supplies of technically recoverable oil could fuel 200 years of usage at current consumption rates.
This is based on total cost of ownership factors including depreciation, financing, insurance, maintenance, repairs, fees and taxes and, of course, fuel consumption.
This creates a split-incentive, because the ship owner (who would pay for the upgrades) does not get the benefit of savings on fuel consumption.
Conversely, other airlines, such as Alaska Air, hedged a smaller percentage of their expected fuel consumption, and as a result, their annual savings were much less during that same period.
Industry officials are eager to point out that small cuts in the fuel consumption and emissions of millions of cars add up and have a greater impact overall than what might still be a relatively weak take-up of electric cars.
But stabilizing the effects of our unsustainable fossil fuel consumption requires more than high-risk technologies.
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Other provisions in the amendment would require the labeling of new tires so consumers can choose based on their efficiency, contributing to as much as a 3% reduction in fuel consumption and the electrification of truck stops.
And with a petrol consumption of 67mpg, few cars can match its fuel-efficiency.
The 2010 Annual Energy Outlook projects that over 40 percent of U.S. liquid fuel consumption will be supplied by imports through 2035.
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The Panamera S E-Hybrid expands upon the driving performance of the previous generation, while fuel consumption is reduced when compared to the previous Panamera S Hybrid.
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Despite all these restrictions, two groups working on the future of aircraft have come up with designs that could meet the practical needs of the industry and still cut fuel consumption by half.
This is a remarkable saving, and although she is a small, specialist vessel, many of her features, particularly the new bow and the more efficient system of propellers, could help reduce fuel consumption and emission levels in larger ships as well.
None of this should surprise environmentalists: Fuel-efficiency standards sparked the boom in the ultimate symbol of wasteful consumption, the sport utility vehicle.
"The construction of affordable homes will help curb excessive price rises and fuel urbanization, which will in turn unleash consumption and investment potentials and push development of related industries, " Mr. Li said.
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