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.
Blending of local and imported coal would have increased costs for power producers which source the fuel from the state-run monopoly supplier.
In January, two people were killed by a fire at a fuel storage terminal of state-run Indian Oil Corp.
In September of last year, a massive explosion at a Pemex natural-gas plant near the northern border city of Reynosa killed 30 workers and caused critical shortages of the fuel, causing the state-run electricity company Comision Federal de Electricidad to switch to more expensive fuels in order to free up some natural gas for industry.
However, concerns of intermittent spikes in inflation still remain due to regular increases in state-set fuel prices.
The team's priority now is to put the craft into "Point Rest State" - reducing fuel consumption so the craft has enough left to last months or years, giving scientists the time to decide how to proceed.
The state-owned monopoly that provided jet fuel refused to service private carriers on the same generous terms given the big three.
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Shortly after that, the American Tradition Institute, a group with ties to fossil-fuel interests, asked for the same emails under the state's open records laws.
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"I just can't stand this mess, " he remarked early this year when the state-owned Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. failed to prevent a serious accident at a nuclear waste-processing plant near Tokyo.
But they also have their bread buttered by fossil fuel interests, which ultimately slants their joint attempt to reverse state-wide green energy standards.
Difficult questions they have previously shied away from - like how the NHS is funded, the size of the welfare state and the universality of benefits like winter fuel payments - may now have to be considered, he added.
Failure on this front would only fuel the popular anger and frustration generated by the growing unemployment that state-enterprise reform will bring.
This story dates to 2007 when the Bush Administration joined Democratic greens and corn-state Republicans to pass an energy bill mandating renewable fuel standards.
They, therefore, confine themselves into routine and predictable business, simply collecting deposits and financing government decided real estate projects and State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)-providing the fuel for the next bubble, rather than searching for creditworthy borrowers.
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Tang Dagang, director of the Vehicle Emission Control Center, a policy research group also affiliated with the ministry, said pressure increased last year to tighten diesel fuel standards after the State Council, or cabinet, announced stricter air-quality rules.
The state's disaster plans also said the state should pre-emptively communicate with the public about fuel shortages.
The air resources board adopted a low-carbon fuel standard to carry out the legislation, but a judge blocked the state from enforcing the standard last month in order to allow lawsuits that challenge it to proceed.
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The emerging 3-D printing industry got a boost last month when President Obama highlighted it in his State of the Union address as something that could revive manufacturing and fuel new high-tech jobs in the United States.
The state has about 350 hydrogen fuel cells running around today, along with 34, 000 plug-in hybrid or all electric vehicles and 380, 000 conventional hybrids like the Toyota Prius, the air resources board said.
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Democrats may have a tougher time at the polls in general next year: Green policies like the state's renewable energy mandate, cap and trade and a low-carbon fuel standard will start kicking into high gear in 2014.
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