As they move from low-energy to high-energy consumers, they are becoming steadily rising competitors with us for oil.
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The EIA estimates growth to be relatively flat for OECD countries, which are generally the more advanced energy consumers.
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Energywatch Scotland is once again arguing that the market is not working for the most vulnerable of energy consumers.
He wanted to know the costs to energy consumers of these proposals compared to other forms of low carbon energy.
The EU correctly points out that Russia needs European energy consumers just as much as Europe needs Russian energy suppliers.
Tighter restrictions are a view to which CFTC Chair Gary Gensler subscribes and one that is also supported by large industrial energy consumers.
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"There is a level of mutual dependence - we depend on them for energy supplies and we are energy consumers for them, " he said.
While I support the goal, the proposal was a weak-kneed and poorly considered one that would have simply created a pass-through to California's energy consumers.
However, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a rich-world energy consumers' club, says that European customers have already stopped buying Iranian crude and that Asian buyers are looking elsewhere.
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Many energy consumers are switching fuels as rapidly as possible.
And if both America and China, the biggest energy consumers, become less dependent on the Middle East for gas, they are less likely to fall out over securing resources from the region.
Most of this burden was carried as an implicit subsidy to domestic energy consumers, with the price of diesel fuel, for example, set at the equivalent of two American cents a litre, and petrol selling for less than bottled water.
And I think it is imperative for American foreign policy looking forward to engage both energy suppliers and rising energy consumers like China in a way that is going to reduce the incentives for these countries to play this game.
For energy consumers, such a strategy, if successful, will inevitably mean shortages of energy, and higher costs at the fuel pump, in our home utility bills, at grocery and clothing stores, and in any other good or service whose cost is in any way dependent on the cost of energy or transportation.
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When it comes to an accessible, quantitative measure of energy, consumers are uniquely familiar with the 100W bulb.
With gas profits at his disposal, Mattei transformed himself into a petropopulist, promising cheap energy for consumers across EUrope.
Outside America, food has a bigger share than energy in consumers' shopping baskets and thus in inflation too (see chart).
But despite the energy savings, when consumers buy Energy Star products, they often face a bit of sticker shock.
Making existing energy production more efficient, and reducing waste in the use of energy by consumers, would have a big economic and environmental impact.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, consumers did decide.
Forced by a new law to publish the electricity rates of utility contracts it has approved, the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday issued a report detailing what green energy costs consumers.
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But the secretary of state conceded that energy bills for consumers would rise as a result of the plans.
"Without greater scrutiny of energy prices, consumers simply will not believe that they are getting a good deal, " he said.
The most energy-intensive consumers are shielded from the feed-in tariff, leaving ordinary folk, including pensioners and the unemployed, to foot the bill.
In addition, these systems monitor electric system parameters and pricing information to manage consumers energy costs, comfort, and health according to end-users personal preferences.
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On Feb. 27, a Consumers Energy crew was replacing eight-decade-old pipelines in Royal Oak when a natural-gas explosion killed one resident and damaged 31 homes.
Smart meter readings offer utilities and consumers energy and cost savings.
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CMS's Consumers Energy unit has 626 miles of cast- and wrought-iron pipeline in its gas system, or about 2.4 percent of the utility's total distribution system.
"Clearly there are mutual interests in terms of large energy suppliers and consumers, but there will be stress points, of course, " said Ben Simpfendorfer, co-founder of Silk Road Associates, an investment advisory firm specializing on trade between the Middle East and Far East Asia.
"We have an obligation to Mutual Energy as electricity consumers indirectly to make up any shortfall in their revenue, otherwise they won't be able to pay the cost of their borrowing - which we have guaranteed from the day they undertook that borrowing, " Mr Simpson explained.
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