In countries south of the equator, specifically in African countries, fuel is relatively expensive and in some areas not available at all.

Energy and high fuel prices were crucial factors affecting development.

Our Organization must, as a matter of urgency and without excuses, seek a mechanism that can help to stem this constant increase, the impact of which on developing countries is really dramatic.

Prices remained at the same level as in the previous month in alcoholic beverages and tobacco housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels communications and education.

The Right Time to Reform Fuel Pricing

All the while, Americans have been enjoying the cheapest gasoline in the developed world. The country failed to anticipate the rise of China and India, whose exponential demand growth would have obvious implications for global energy prices.

But if your fuel source is free, then the only thing that matters is the up front capital cost of the engine.

Nothing could be more harmful today to the effective performance of the world economy than the steady increase in the price of fuel.

The rapid increases in prices generally, made worse by increasing fuel prices in mid June 2001, not only made the poor even poorer but also lowered the real wages of those who remained employed.

Due to recent international events, it is also time for the United Nations to immediately expand its emergency response to the rising prices of fuel.

Six fuel distributors raised their prices by almost identical amounts within a period of 15 to 34 hours and maintained these higher levels for several months.

You know, who is going to say that we cracked this thing of the dependence on fossil fuels, with all that being held to ransom by rogue regimes, and so on.

Much attention is already being given to the first step, that is, to provide the assurance of supply of nuclear fuel and technology at competitive market prices.

Higher food and energy prices put upward pressure on price levels in the subregion, which was partially offset by fuel subsidies in some countries.

With prices of finite fossil fuels rising and cereal prices falling to record world market levels, it is becoming economically interesting to use cereals, in addition to straw, for energy production.

Additional requirements were due mainly to increases in fuel prices from the budgeted rate of 0.33 per litre to the actual 0.42 per litre.

The Czech competition agency found no economic justification for these increases in fact, the prices paid by the distributors for their fuel had decreased during the relevant period.

Prices should pass on to end users the full cost not only of production and acquisition, but also of the damage including air pollution and climate change caused by intensive reliance on fossil fuels. A fairer carbon price will drive energy savings and boost demand for cleaner fuels and greener investments.

For small island developing States, economic gains made over the past 10 years are being wiped away by spiralling fuel prices.

But we should not rush to abandon bio fuels, despite some undoubtedly poor policies in recent years. Some bio fuels are far more cost effective and energy efficient than others, and different bio fuel stocks have very different opportunity costs for food agriculture (sugar has not experienced any significant price increase).

Pada akhirnya, di tingkat individual, fleksibilitas lebih besar dapat diperkenalkan di SPBU melalui penggunaan kendaraan bahan bakar fleksibel seperti yang digunakan di Brasil. Jika kendaraan dilengkapi dengan mesin yang dapat digerakkan oleh bahan bakar fosil atau dicampur dengan biofuel pada jumlah tinggi, maka konsumen dapat beradaptasi dengan perubahan harga dengan beralih jenis bahan bakar.

If we allow food to be used to produce bio fuels, food prices will be linked to the oil price, as the head of the German farmers association happily announced. Indeed, food prices are currently increasing in Europe, because more and more farmland is being used for bio fuels instead of for food production.

So, what if you could get your gas at a 10th the price?

Those requirements have ramifications for protecting the global climate, ensuring sustainability of energy resources and restraining the escalating spiral of fuel prices.

Even more serious is the fact that fuel prices have risen so dramatically and have wreaked such havoc in a number of countries they threaten to create political instability and provoke economic crises.

Ensuring that fuel would be accessible to the developing countries with competitive and fair conditions devoid of imposed regulations and prices determined through monopolies in the market.

Biofuels. Liquid biofuels are renewable transport fuels made from plant materials.

Sekarang tiba waktunya untuk berinvestasi pada produksi tenaga surya berskala besar. Sebagai awalnya, biaya konstruksi pembangkit listrik tenaga surya akhirnya cukup rendah sehingga dapat menghasilkan listrik dengan tarif yang kompetitif dan stabil selama 25 tahun.

The good news for US energy security is that in 2011, the country became a new net exporter of petroleum products. The price of fossil fuels, however, is likely to continue to trend upward.

Small island developing States are also vulnerable to exogenous environmental and economic events, such as the dramatic increase in fuel prices, which impede their opportunities for development.

And everyone will keep burning it because it's so cheap, until governments make it expensive.

Even the one factor that has effectively increased disposable incomes and augmented demand sharply declining commodity prices, particularly for fossil fuels is ultimately problematic. Indeed, for commodity exporting countries, the fall in prices is generating fiscal and economic headwinds of varying intensity.

Dampak ini bisa diperluas jika tambahan permintaan akan bahan baku untuk biofuel dapat dipenuhi oleh petani keluarga dan produsen skala kecil.

Third, we face steeply rising prices for fossil fuels, as developing countries growth drives up demand and conventional supplies of coal, oil, and gas are depleted. Sure, we can find more fossil fuels, but at much higher cost and at much greater environmental risk from industrial spills, waste products, leaks, and other damage.

Because increased demand for bio fuels leads to cutting down carbon rich forests, a 2008 Science study showed that the net effect of using them is not to cut CO2 emissions, but to double them. The rush towards bio fuels has also strongly contributed to rising food prices, which have tipped another roughly 30 million people into starvation.

The United States ill considered bio fuels subsidy program demonstrates how not to react. Rather than acknowledge that high fuel prices are the best way to inspire energy conservation and innovation, the Bush administration has instituted huge subsidies to American farmers to grow grains for bio fuel production.

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Requests the Secretary General to review all aspects of fuel management, including the preparation of a comprehensive fuel management manual, implementation of the electronic fuel accounting system, development of standard operating procedures on fuel management and preparation of an annual fuel procurement plan, and to report on the status of implementation

Recent inflation in many countries has been the result of higher commodity prices, especially fuel and food prices. In these circumstances, domestic deflationary policies will only further slow growth and are helpless to stem imported inflation.

We're running out of fossil fuels.

There was a shortage of fuel.

The sustained hike in global oil prices is a loud and clear alarm call for us to consider the unsustainability of the global dependence on fossil fuels.

Investing heavily in research and development of low carbon energy, solar power, or other new technologies would become cheaper than fossil fuels much more quickly. Economic estimates show that for every 1 spent, we would do 16 worth of good.