Somehow market participants expected greater consumption in the 2010 holiday shopping season.
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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.
This time last year, independent forecasters expected private UK consumption to go up by 1.1% over the following 12 months.
Conservation can help, but with oil consumption expected to grow by 60% over the next 25 years, conservation alone will not be a sufficient solution.
He may have read too much into better-than-expected data on consumption.
With global consumption expected to rise to 87 million barrels a day next year and the universe of privately controlled reserves shrinking the hunt is on.
In the U.S., Peabody sees coal coming back strong, with consumption expected to rise by more than 40 million tons next year as high natural gas prices translate into greater coal-based generation.
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Per-capita consumption is expected to grow by 10% annually over the next five years.
With unemployment falling and wages expected to rise, consumption is at last starting to pick up.
Imports are also expected to slow as consumption growth in China has decreased, weighing negatively on markets.
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Consumption was expected to exceed the maximum supply by Tokyo Electric Power Co.
However, given the current lack of a viable, affordable electric car, Chinese fossil fuel consumption is expected to continue to rise.
With little or no help from EPA, power sector coal consumption is expected to fall 2% this year and 4% next year.
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The economic opportunities in the advanced energy sector become even more obvious when you consider that global energy consumption is expected to rise almost 40 percent by 2030.
Global energy consumption is expected to increase by about 50% between now and 2035 due to population growth and increasing economic activity, with non-OECD countries accounting for 84% of this increase.
In its new International Energy Outlook 2011, the EIA reports that throughout the world, energy consumption is expected to rise by 53 percent from 2008 through 2035 driven by robust economic growth and expanding populations in the developing countries.
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Higher than expected corporate spending and household consumption are thought to have contributed to growth.
By comparison, the U.S. consumption level is expected to rise marginally by 0.2% to 2.26 billion tons of oil equivalent.
Cigarette consumption can be expected to fall as prices rise, but revenues still increase because demand for cigarettes is relatively inelastic.
Even if the conservation measures now being considered are put in place, global energy consumption is still expected to top 14 Btoe by 2030, a 27% increase from where it is now.
Against this, expected national government revenues from the consumption tax are JPY 7.2 trillion, i.e.
Aging population of U.S., is expected to increase the per capita consumption of drugs.
Household consumption in Brazil is expected to be 3.8% in 2012, going to 4.9% in 2013, according to Kaplan.
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Much of the U.S. economic data over the last month has been softer than expected, raising concerns about future consumption of industrial commodities such as copper.
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Plus, U.S. oil consumption is declining and is expected to decline for decades.
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However, studies of the stockmarket crashes of 1929 and 1987 found they had a much smaller effect on consumption than might have been expected.
This form of consumption represented 12% of Chinese luxury consumption in 2010, but is expected to reach 22% by 2015.
But power consumption was much greater than TEPCO expected Thursday, due to a wave of cold weather that spurred heating demand.
As noted in previous posts, current consumption figures do not reflect the expected growth in areas such as chemical industry feedstocks, or power generation (where most new fossil-based supply will come from highly efficient gas-fired generators).
Double-digit growth in jewelry and watch sales, strong demand in China and Latin America, and resurging U.S. and European markets have all contributed to what is expected to be a growth of 13 percent in worldwide luxury consumption in 2011, according to a recently released report.
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