Meanwhile, the global market is demanding ever more clean diesel fuels and low-sulphur petrol.
Obama, who recently turned his attention to the need for more clean-energy funding, has also asked U.N.
And as more clean diesels enter the U.S. market, consumers are showing an increased interest in those, as well.
Over time I think the transition is going to be more and more clean energy and over time fossil fuels become less prominent in our overall energy mix.
With the right incentives, however, path dependency can help because as fuel taxes prompt more clean innovation, the market for clean cars expands, thus making each future clean innovation more profitable.
Secondly, I think as the President talked about even yesterday, we have an ability through incentivizing a clean energy economy to create the type of demand that's necessary to create more and more clean energy jobs.
Just as bankruptcies are an important part of the capitalist system and allow companies to come out the other end stronger and with a more clean cap table, so too are foreclosures important for a well-functioning housing market.
Regardless of what you believe about the urgency or importance climate change, we can agree that making more clean, American energy, making it more affordable, and making it right here in the USA are all in the national interest.
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"We know 85% of people want to see more clean British energy, not gas", he said, arguing that ministers should focus less time and money on technologies that are unproven or, "like nuclear, are consistently late and reliant on vast public subsidies".
If governments took action now and effectively raised carbon tax on fuel by 40 percent percent, INSEAD Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science David Hemous predicts that within 15 years there would be more clean cars than dirty cars sold in the world.
Only then would mandates accelerate the deployment of cheap, clean energy rather than force more expensive clean energy technologies on the market.
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The owner estimates that if the factory remains under water for a full month, it could take two months more to clean up.
There is an irony here, for Nomura had otherwise done more to clean up its act than had the other big securities firms.
But these days it's leaning more toward clean diesel engines that get high mileage and can run on newly popular fuels like gas-to-liquid synthetic diesel or biodiesel.
Rather than simply subsidize production of current technologies, we need a comprehensive energy innovation strategy to develop, manufacture, and deploy riskier but more promising clean energy technologies that may eventually compete with fossil energy at scale.
I'm not saying we don't need green tech, whatever that really is, or that we don't need more "clean" energy, whatever that really is too (I have to note that all new energy technologies are almost always cleaner than old, regardless of the primary source).
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We can always work more, do more with our kids, organize and clean more, work out more, sleep more.
But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives.
In other words, the United States is underinvesting in clean energy innovation at a time where we need more next-generation clean energy technologies, not less.
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We believe in a strategy of more production, more efficiency, and more incentives for clean energy.
Americans are told they must consume less, waste less and spend more to buy clean energy.
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We need to cut our oil imports in half and create thousands more jobs in clean energy.
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But to give them that power, we need to do more than just clean up our elections.
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"The Republicans are trying to convince us to give them four more years to clean up the mess they made, " she said.
But general calls for government to do more to juice clean technology gave way to deep disagreement over what government should do.
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But a different, equally simple explanation deserves more attention: clean energy companies have capital requirements and competitive landscapes categorically different from IT companies.
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On the environment, Capuano will push for more money to clean up superfund sites and will oppose efforts to roll back air and water pollution standards.
Energy department officials have been using Sputnik to rally for more funding for clean energy research and development at a time when lawmakers are in the budget-cutting mode.
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His 76 years do suggest his papacy will not be long, and a pope in his 50s would have more energy to clean out the Curia and travel the world.
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