In May, trucking giant Schneider National adopted its own fuel saving policy.
The fuel economy standard (FES) policy regulates the sales-weighted average fuel economy of new vehicles (designed to be similar to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, which were enacted in 1978 and have been recently tightened).
The problem, of course, comes when easy monetary policy fails to fuel an economic recovery, which appears to be the ongoing case in Europe and could be heading toward a similar fate in the U.S. if the much-feared fiscal cliff causes a significant decline in already-tepid growth.
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For now, China's concern for regime stability, continued economic growth, markets for its goods and access to resources around the world to fuel that growth continue to drive its policy choices.
Americans are far less likely to get behind such sweeping environmental and economic policy, which is designed to discourage fuel use by making energy more expensive.
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"Ford's decision shows that people who say you can't make cars cleaner and more fuel-efficient are wrong, " the energy policy director of the Sierra Club told the New York Times.
Until a few weeks ago, the conversion of food to fuel in the EU was expected to continue to meet policy goals.
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We should make a centerpiece of national energy policy that natural gas should be the principal fuel, perhaps the only fuel besides electricity that powers our vehicles.
And investors and policy wonks alike are trumpeting the corn-based fuel as the solution to climate change and America's dependence on Mideast oil.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 created an income tax credit for fuel cells along the lines of subsidies enjoyed by wind and solar power.
Asked about his policy on universal benefits for pensioners, such as the winter fuel allowance, the Labour leader said he was a supporter of the payment and there was independent evidence that it had been effective at tackling fuel poverty.
In short, the FOMC will probably not announce further policy measures today despite the plunge in stocks for fear of pouring fuel on the fire.
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More than half of the energy and climate change policy costs in household bills are spent on measures to target the fuel poor and energy efficiency.
On the other hand, too lax policy, such as keeping the real deposit rate deeply negative, could fuel asset price bubbles that, by definition, eventually burst.
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He also said the government is pushing ahead with Rokkasho as part of a national energy policy that seeks to reduce overall plutonium stockpiles by processing them into the fuel to power reactors.
The SNP leader said that, over the next few months, the party would be sitting down to establish the framework for the general election fight based on the policy areas of health, education, pensions, poverty, jobs, fuel costs and crime.
"The dominant food-production system is based on fossil fuel at every level, " said Dr Martin Caraher, professor of food and health policy at London's City University.
"The dominant food production system is based on fossil fuel at every level, " says Dr Martin Caraher, Professor of Food and Health Policy at London's City University.
But the EU reversed policy and lowered biofuel mandates in recognition of the questionable environmental benefits of converting food to fuel and the impact on food prices.
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Overall, China views promotion of green sectors as sound industrial policy: it aims to be the world market leader in solar panels, wind turbines, fuel-efficient cars, and other clean energy industries.
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 central bank, which has kept interest rates high to offset lax fiscal policy, is in a policy bind: even higher rates might attract a destabilising amount of speculative capital, while lower rates would fuel domestic demand and imports, pushing the current-account deficit higher.
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