Sentence examples for energy glut from inspiring English sources

Rising domestic oil production and a global energy glut have all but nullified the pitch that ethanol would help wean the country off foreign oil.

The collapse of Enron, the giant energy trading company -- and the prospect of an energy glut in many parts of the country -- has frightened investors who were once eager to pour money into power plant projects.

It's true that the Bush administration sometimes compromises on its free-market principles -- it believes, for example, that energy producers need huge subsidies, even though the shortages those subsidies were supposed to correct have turned out to be imaginary (a recent cover story in Barron's warned of "the coming energy glut").

Tellingly, in the past two years Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has had four meetings with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping the same number as with President Obama.The benefits of this new North American energy glut go far beyond the oil industry.

But maybe we forgot during the energy glut of the 1980s and 90s.

Until then the BPA will be giving electricity away, and paying the transmission costs of utilities willing to take it.The clean-energy glut was predictable, given the tendency of snow to melt in the spring and given whopping increases in the region's wind-generating capacity.

The IEA, which advises developed states on energy policies, said the glut was likely to continue.

Union leaders are due to meet on Monday to plan their next moves in the battle to save the steel industry, which has been damaged by falling prices, high energy costs and a glut of cheap Chinese steel.

The price of a barrel of oil sank to its lowest level in almost seven years, as traders bet on a continued glut of global energy and a historic Federal Reserve interest rate hike next week.

Now I am cringing at the thought of giving a blank check to the industry leadership that, in its blind pursuit of short-term profit and in the face of the gathering energy crisis, gave us this glut of albatross vehicles, thereby positioning a major sector of our economy for collapse.

Back in the early 1990s, U.S. farmers took note of the first Gulf War, rising energy prices, and a huge glut of excess soybean oil sitting in tanks around the country, and they saw an opportunity.