It adds that shale gas had comprised about 23 percent of all natural gas production in 2010 and that it expects the fuel to make up roughly 46 percent of all such development by 2035.
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Supplies like food, water, diesel fuel and ammunition make up the other 80%.
Depending on the price of gas, it can take quite a while for fuel savings to make up for the extra expense of buying a hybrid as opposed to a standard, gasoline-powered equivalent.
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The country has been importing large amounts of fuel in order to make up the difference.
While there will be up front costs of purchasing the new vehicles, over time the enormous fuel savings will more than make up for this initial outlay of capital, and Fedex is also gaining a reputation for being socially responsible, thus potentially attracting additional customers who would have otherwise used a competitor.
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Surcharges were introduced to help airlines with the rising cost of fuel and have come to make up a significant part of the price of an airline ticket.
Shuttering even one U.S. nuclear power plant could unleash massive carbon emissions if fossil-fuel plants were used to make up the lost power, according to a new study released this weekend by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Today, several fuel-centric companies that realize fuel costs are cutting into their bottom lines make up for their losses by passing them along to their customers via fuel surcharges or higher prices.
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Both Kia and Hyundai executives gave the requisite public apologies and are in the process of establishing reimbursement programs that will make up for the differences in fuel costs between the original and recalculated ratings.
In practice, this game of topping up the carbon content to make a better fuel stops with octanol (eight carbon atoms) as anything bigger tends to freeze at temperatures that might be encountered in winter.
And to this end coupled with affordable ticket prices, the LOC is banking that packing the house will fuel increases in concessions and merchandise revenue that will more than make up for selling Olympic tickets at prices below market value.
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And all these companies start coming up with new technologies that make your cars more fuel-efficient.
The process is also capable of transforming virtually all plant matter into liquid fuel, whereas typical ethanol refining uses only the fatty acids that make up around 10 percent of the mass of dried plants.
In America, where the price of a gallon of petrol can be less than the price of a gallon of bottled water, large fuel-guzzling trucks and sport utility vehicles (urban assault vehicles) make up more than half of the market.
Long-term, they know that government regulations, including tougher rules on fuel economy and safety, plus new technologies, will drive up development costs and make it harder to sustain the fat profit margins pickups are known for.
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That F350, running on 5% soy-based biodiesel (any more would void the vehicle's warranty), burns 840 gallons of fossil fuel a year doing 15, 000 miles, not including the petroleum used up to make the soy diesel.
This is to ensure that we have a consistent fuel economy program in all 50 states, that we don't have a state-by-state patchwork quilt of fuel economy programs because that would just drive up the cost of vehicles and would perhaps make certain vehicles unavailable in certain states, which is unfair to consumers.
Dramatic advances in technologies such as fuel cells and microturbines, which generate power efficiently and cleanly on a smaller scale, may make up the shortfall.
However, the airline is trying to make up for the higher labor costs through efforts like fleet replacement aimed at deriving fuel efficiencies and the recent spin-off of its regional carrier, American Eagle to access more competitive rates from other carriers.
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The team add that Hamilton's set-up could make the car tricky to drive during the race when his McLaren will be filled up with fuel.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's elaborate proposal to update the 30-year-old regulations that govern the fuel economy of U.S. pickups, minivans and SUVs released yesterday may or may not end up make the United States less thirsty for oil.
The hybrid design which Mr Jubb has come up with uses a solid fuel called hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene, a form of synthetic rubber used to make things like aircraft tyres.
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