"The trouble is that we take 1p off fuel one day and the next day the oil companies add it to the price, we need to come up with a new way of pricing fuel, " one MP later told me.
The potential for change is clearly massive but weaning British motorists off liquid fuel will be an uphill task, as the authors acknowledge.
That could also allow commercial satellite companies to extend the life of hardware that's now written off when fuel for maneuvering thrusters runs out.
As Oak Ridge notes, in Texas even if prices were to TRIPLE for consumers or electric cars, they would still be economically better off in fuel costs.
Any spill due to this explosion would be a small fraction of the 10 million gallons spilled by the Exxon Valdez, and Petrobras has ships ready to cordon off any fuel.
Part of the reservations system calculates the weight of the airplane based off passenger, fuel and luggage data, which is necessary for the airplane to safely take off.
Goldman conceived and sold derivatives to Fannie to fool investors, fight off regulators and fuel bonuses to top management.
The more sophisticated missiles are programmed to steer towards heat (such as that given off by a fuel-burning jet).
Perhaps a risk worth taking, Lord Turner is likely to argue, if it is a one-off injection of fuel into the flat engine of the economy.
Freudenberg, a former Army helicopter pilot who served in Iraq, had worked for the company just under a year, and probably wanted to avoid revealing that he had taken off with inadequate fuel, which is a violation of FAA regulations, investigators said.
It has been suggested that bringing forward the timing of Winter Fuel Payments for off-grid households might provide some help by enabling them to stock up on fuel at a time of year when prices are likely to lower than in the middle of winter.
The GTS's star attraction is its torque-rich 4.8-liter V8, the same dry-sump, alloy-block engine as in the all-wheel-drive Panamera 4S but let off the leash a bit, with a higher redline (7, 100-rpm fuel shut-off), lumpier cam-lift logic, more aggressive transmission software (quicker, harder shifts available from the dual-clutch PDK gearbox), and additional cold-air boxes with active shutters behind lower lateral bumper intakes.
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Executives attribute the drop-off to rising jet fuel prices, combined with declining air travel.
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Part of the program's intent is to get vehicles with low fuel efficiency off the road.
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The charity said the birds were found covered in thick black fuel oil off Ramsgate and Rye last week.
The question for the long term was, he explained, how to get off the "fossil fuel price escalator" with energy sources including renewable and nuclear.
"We need a dramatic shift off carbon-based fuel: coal, oil and also gas, " Bill McKibbern, the founder of 350.org, wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
"To boost our flatlining economy Labour has already called for a temporary VAT cut which would take 3p off a litre of fuel, " shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves said.
For example during the party's welfare review, should a One Nation Labour Party defend the principle of universal benefits - or would its concern for the poor cost, for example, better off pensioners their winter fuel allowance?
And while the average car made today is more of a gas-sipper than a guzzler, 54.5 is still a long way off: The average fuel economy of passenger vehicles sold in the United States averaged 33.8 mpg as of October, up from 24.7 in 2002 and 27.1 in 2008.
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Unless oil and fuel quotes soar off the page the Fed sits easy for a couple of years.
The spokesman said there were also discussions about arranging one-off imports of higher octane fuel to support motorsport events and competitions.
"If you turn the experiment around and put the hydrogen and oxygen in and take the electricity off, you have a fuel cell, " Roan said.
The fact that the wheels have come off the government's fuel tax policies so disastrously this week emphasises the need for a fairer, less crude method of taxing motorists.
Just as plants need sunlight to pull off the trick, Air Fuel Synthesis, the firm profiled in the UK's Independent newspaper, need to use good old-fashioned electric energy to pull off theirs.
And with Chambers County knocked off the electrical grid, no fuel means the generator won't be running.
If the natural gas legislation passes, it will be a huge boon to this always-promising but never off-the-ground alternative fuel.
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Turning fossil-fuel plants on and off adds inefficiencies, producing carbon emissions just to heat up boilers before energy production can begin.
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