fuel industry

collocation in English

meaningsoffuelandindustry

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fuel
noun
uk
/ˈfjuː.əl/us
/ˈfjuː.əl/
a substance that is used to provide heat or power, usually by ...
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industry
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.də.stri/us
/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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(Definition offuelandindustryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffuel industry

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If it can develop clean, environmentally friendly fuels, its export position in thefuelindustrycan only benefit.
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The authority is not to be responsible for managing the coal or any other fossilfuelindustry.
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The campaign's leaflet contains essential information on health, food, draughtproofing, advice from thefuelindustryand about cash help and cold weather payments.
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Contracts for reprocessing spent fuel associated with the nuclearfuelindustrycan be considered in principle for export credit cover subject to satisfactory underwriting conditions.
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There are at present no statutory provisions which would permit the direct transfer of profits from one nationalisedfuelindustryto another.
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That would appear to be not unreasonable, because the oil industry is afuelindustry—but the chemical industry is not afuelindustry.
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If we want an effectivefuelindustryin this country, ought not the gas industry to be able to compete with electricity on equal terms?
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I do not know of anyfuelindustrywhich has not had enormous difficulties.
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Lastly, the pricing policies of thefuelindustryare matters on which there has been a good deal of discussion already.
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We need to co-operate closely with thefuelindustry.
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The effect on thefuelindustrywill be largely neutral, with the important exception of electricity generation.
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Does he think that they have pursued with vigour their prime duty, which is the defence and promotion of our indigenous fossilfuelindustry?
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The plan for every otherfuelindustryis based on that assumption too.
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I am from thefuelindustry—the coal and electricity industries.
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The gasfuelindustryshould be further stimulated by measures designed specifically to reduce emissions from vehicles in urban areas.
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We have to be concerned with the human as well as with the economic and balance of payments consequences of changes in thefuelindustry.
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Similar problems have arisen in other sections of the nationalisedfuelindustry.
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Past statistics have led us into a very dangerous position in which we might destroy our indigenousfuelindustry.
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Thefuelindustry, both nationalised and private, has adopted a responsible attitude in promoting the need for adequate insulation.
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Is not this a typical example showing that there should he an inquiry into the whole position in thefuelindustry?
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