Similarly, oil produced from shale will allow the U.S. to un-hook from the spigot of oil supplied from global hot spots.

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Video shot by the robotic submarines (a.k.a. remote operated vehicles or ROVs) seems to indicate that oil is leaking from three spots in a pipe that is laying on the seafloor.

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Imaging techniques are so good that geologists can approximate standing inside a rock formation to look for the spots most likely to hold oil.

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While the castles no longer need to serve their original purposes of keeping out marauding hordes or providing spots from which to pour boiling oil, his clients demand all of the stereotypical castle features.

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The southern mountains are dotted with tiny traditional villages, fantastic spots to buy hearty local olive oil and thyme honey, though Azogires has a freshwater lagoon where the itinerant nereids - those beguiling sea-nymphs of ancient Greek myth - can allegedly steal a man's soul on one sacred night each year.

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OK, there are a few spots (like Florida and New England) where oil is used to produce a little electricity.

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The Bakken is just the biggest of spots across the country where drillers have triggered an onshore oil and gas boom.

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Whoever was spinning the drill bits and selecting the spots at which to sink them, Shell wasn't developing new oil and gas fields fast enough to replace what it pumped out.

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Advanced technologies have made it possible to not just extract more oil from conventional sources previously thought tapped, but frack and deep-water drill in spots not even thought of 20 years ago.

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