The system offers the usual satellite-radio amenities (XM NavWeather, local fuel prices, real-time traffic and stock updates, and more) as well as a brace of Internet apps, such as Pandora and Open Table.
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"We also contract with local (fuel) suppliers to ensure regular deliveries if there are extended commercial power issues, as we did during Sandy to positive effect, " Pica said.
It could offer improvements in local air quality, fuel economy and reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions.
The college, which will specialise in engineering and enterprise, is a joint project between Oxford Brookes University and local firm Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells.
Electric-only driving is possible without any fuel consumption or local emissions, which is especially advantageous in city driving.
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Then, you'll have access to realtime traffic information, fuel rates at local gas stations, along with email, text messages and other data feeds, including news and sports scores.
One innovative company, Grease Lightning, based in New York City, has been purchasing used cooking oil from local restaurants to convert into biodiesel fuel since 2011.
More reliability would have come from water-proof substations, building-centric Bloom fuel-cell power and local micro-grids.
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Local offices that distribute federally-subsidized fuel assistance can't do it this year until the government is restarted.
The local evacuation was precautionary, as the fuel was last reported to be well underwater as it should be.
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It identified a number of issues including little affordable housing, more expensive vehicle fuel and higher prices in local shops which all contributed to a higher cost of living.
The EU Climate Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, said climate policies would cut local pollution, reduce dependency on fossil fuel imports, improve resource efficiency, save money on energy and even make people fitter if they left their cars at home and cycled to work.
SuperValu too, offers this at a limited number of stores: locations with fuel centers and in partnership with local gas stations.
Everyone here has their own story of how rising prices are affecting them and many have been moved to sign the fuel campaign petition raised by the local paper 'Am Paipear'.
Nordic countries, for example, are already worrying that next winter, as in this one, they will find their sleeves being tugged for fuel, food and medicine by local governments in impoverished towns in Russia's desperate far north.
The President reiterated his direction to continue to provide every available resource to support state and local and partners, including efforts to confront fuel challenges facing communities and ongoing power restoration efforts, as well as any support that can be provided ahead of the potential severe weather.
It also says profits from timber help to fuel corruption as loggers help to finance local ruling parties, which in turn allocate areas to be felled.
"Our vision is that one of these plants would be the core element of a community energy center" that could provide a local, sustainable source of both transportation and heating fuel.
It is thought local people had gathered round, helping themselves to free fuel.
Local authority housing had the highest proportion of households in fuel poverty in October last year, compared with other types of housing, at one in three.
Regional commanders are increasingly dependent on their local authorities, not Moscow, for supplies of food and fuel.
This makes it hard to ship fuel easily from state to state, and contributes to local shortages.
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Although airfares are still expensive (due largely to high fuel costs), once you reach your destination, local prices will be lower across the board than they have been in the past.
It also said that while it did not plan to do any more work on the national fuel market, it might still take action in some local markets if there was "persuasive evidence of anti-competitive behaviour".
Kansai Electric, the company which received the fuel from the UK, was furious, along with the local population near the Takahama 4 power station where the consignment was delivered.
Blending of local and imported coal would have increased costs for power producers which source the fuel from the state-run monopoly supplier.
In particular, Hines noted that they underestimated the complexity involved in working through the California state subsidies, with the local utility rules, and dealing with issues related to biogas supply for the fuel cells.
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This initiative generated multiple benefits: protecting native biodiversity, increasing local water supply, and enabling the company to use the cleared vegetation as biomass fuel.
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But shrinking federal, state and local budgets as well as less revenue overall from other traditional financing sources, like fuel taxes, have undercut efforts to keep pace with demand.
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