He has believed for the past 20 years that the price of oil will eventually make petroleum-based plastics obsolete and clear the way for his alternative.

二十年来，他一直相信，石油的价格最终会淘汰以石油为原料的塑料，为他的替代品扫清道路。

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Between 2004 and 2007, as the price of crude oil soared, companies in the U.S. and Canada that added the words' oil 'or' Petroleum 'to their names got an instantaneous 8% boost to stock performance.

2004年至2007年间，随着原油价格飞涨，在公司名中加入石油字样的美国和加拿大公司的股价瞬时飙升8%。

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Subsequent seismic surveys and the surge in the price of oil prompted Desire Petroleum, a small British company, to hire the rig, which will drill up to ten wells for itself and several other firms.

随后的地质调查和油价波动促使英国一家小公司Desire Petroleum去租用钻井装置，准备为自己和几家其他公司钻探最多十座油井。

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Specifically, Icahn cited widening crack spreads, or the difference between crude oil prices and the price petroleum products that come from refining the crude.

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It is a negative side effect, if you will, of increased global economic growth that -- because of higher consumption of petroleum products, the price of oil goes up often.

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President Bush could help to once and for all pop the oil-price bubble by selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on a more regular basis.

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