"Our planet is approaching a perfect storm of population growth, climate change and peak oil," he said.

“我们的星球正走进人口增长、气候变化和石油峰值的完美风暴，”他说。

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Libya's crude is a perfect feed for ultra low sulphur [sic] diesel. The oil Saudi Arabia would supply to replace, it is not.

利比亚的原油是超低硫柴油机完美的动力来源，而沙特阿拉伯提供的替代石油却做不到这一点。

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Photo-like satellite images are not a perfect tool for detecting oil on the surface of water.

天然色卫星图像不能完全探测海面上的石油。

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If the fuels were perfect substitutes, oil prices would thus tend to be about 6 times natural gas prices.

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In fact, it's not far-fetched to imagine a perfect storm in which low-priced oil coincides with climbing natural gas prices just as a drought hits the Midwest, ravaging the corn crop.

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According to Lucian Pugliaresi, president of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, a Washington-based group that analyzes oil economics, a "perfect storm" of events within the last five years--including political instability in Iraq, Venezuela and Nigeria--has undermined production expectations by as much as 3 million barrels per day.

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