Gasoline prices will fall
In the short term, refineries in this country are expected to be paying $73.50 a barrel during August, compared with $61.60 paid in May in what was thought to be the highest figure.
In the short term, refineries in this country are expected to be paying $73.50 a barrel during August, compared with $61.60 paid in May in what was thought to be the highest figure.
It is about depositing carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the main causes of the greenhouse effect within the earth.
The goal is to keep this gas isolated from the atmosphere for centuries to reduce emissions. In past months, the
National Laboratory of Energy Technology, in the USA, an agency specialized in fossil energies, published a new atlas of the places -in this country and Canada- where it is possible to deposit huge amounts of tons of CO2, product of industrial pollution.
On the website of this institution (www.netl.doe.gov), a team of scientists details some viable technologies to capture CO2 and bury it.
One of them, although not yet used on a large scale, is to gather this gas when it arises from the combustion of fossil fuels – oil, coal and natural gas – and then pump it underground, within terrestrial or marine formations. (Source: El Comercio).
"The United States is committed to working with the other major economies to agree on a detailed contribution and achieve a new global framework by the end of 2008, contributing to an international agreement under the United Nations (UN) Convention on Climate Change in 2009," Bush said in his invitation.
The call includes representatives from both industrialized and developing countries, and aims to adopt long-term strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are responsible for global warming. Only two Latin American countries will participate in the meeting: Brazil and Mexico.
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