How to Use uneconomic in a Sentence

uneconomic

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• By flooding the market from late 2014 on, the cartel hoped to drive oil prices so low that shale wells would be uneconomic.
  — chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
• Many of those projects are uneconomic and now spend their time weighing down bank balance sheets rather than contributing to growth.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• And a slew of new natural gas power plants have come online in recent years that would be uneconomic too close.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 22 June 2018
• Those low gas prices, coupled with growing wind and solar power, have made most coal plants uneconomic.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• Canadian oil at a record low and some North Sea fields are becoming uneconomic.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2020
• These hot summer days are being used to keep otherwise uneconomic coal plants alive.
  — Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 19 July 2019
• Plus there was the danger of small company stocks becoming uneconomic for some firms to cover.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• Lower prices are good for consumers but bad for owners of big, uneconomic coal and nuclear plants, who rely on high prices to keep running.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 18 May 2018
• The first is that some gas plants, like coal ones before them, become uneconomic as renewables keep getting cheaper.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• If the Energy Department acts, consumers will be saddled with as much as $11.8 billion to pay for the uneconomic coal and nuclear plants.
  — Don Santa, Houston Chronicle, 5 July 2018
• These bills favor keeping 65-year old uneconomic power plants in operation for decades to come.
  — John Funk, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017
• Further, the possibility that oil prices would fall with falling demand will mean that the more expensive supply, such as U.S. shale oil, will become uneconomic.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• The fall has cut into oil companies' margins and made many production areas uneconomic.
  — Pan Pylas, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2017
• Similarly, while land grants fomented extensive rail networks, paved roads and diesel trucks made small branch lines uneconomic.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
• Analysts say the Bakken needs a higher oil price than other basins to be profitable because of transportation costs and other factors, potentially making the area uneconomic if U.S. oil prices stay around $50 a barrel.
  — Christopher M. Matthews, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
• These minerals are scarce only because deposits in other parts of the world have so far been uneconomic to extract, but that may change as demand for transparently sourced minerals increases.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• The global depression, coupled with the expense of drawing dwindling copper from the mountains, rendered the operation uneconomic.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2022
• To build the car commercially would be a completely uneconomic enterprise.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 11 July 2019
• But as prices rise the country will face unprecedented competition from oil producers in the U.S. New technology — namely fracking and horizontal drilling — has opened parts of the country to oil development that have long thought to be uneconomic.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 22 Mar. 2018
• The advent of the shale revolution, which converted large resources from uneconomic to economic and moved them to the proved reserves category is clear in recent years; data, but even before that, revisions have nearly always been net positive.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Investors should expect write-downs, both of capital invested in newly uneconomic petroleum projects and speculative clean-energy projects that don’t pan out.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 27 May 2021
• Vistra’s Illinois and Ohio plants were uneconomic due to low gas prices, costly environmental rules and regional nuclear and coal subsidies that benefited the company’s competitors, Cohn told Bloomberg.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2020
• But closing uneconomic reactors can lead to overall reductions in carbon pollution if a nuclear plant’s operating costs are instead invested into efficiency and solar and wind, the report claims.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2020
• Politicians peddle apocalypse and demand that Americans accept skyrocketing gasoline and home heating costs, rolling blackouts and brownouts, endless subsidies for uneconomic vehicles and power generation, and on and on.
  — Andrew I. Fillat and Henry I. Miller, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2021
• However, major grid operators have contended that resilience can be improved without keeping uneconomic coal plants online.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2018
• Using the Act to protect coal and nuclear facilities would almost certainly be more controversial, as the link between national defense and keeping uneconomic coal generators running is not well-established.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2018

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