However, few have been paying attention to the facts as the partisans have worked overtime to paint the Obama administration as being anti-oil and anti-natural gas.
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Oil firm Brazilan Petrobras also bucked the anti-oil trend, partly because of its efforts to wean the country off foreign sources of energy.
Although the size of the crowd was variously estimated to be somewhere between 10, 000 and 30, 000 people, no information was released regarding just how many of those anti-oil activists rode bicycles to the event.
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Some analysts have suggested that the Obama administration, which is widely viewed as being anti-oil, could move so far as to require BP to jettison its U.S. assets or to slap the oil giant with a crippling fine.
Until now, the United States has chosen its Arab friends for their stability, their anti-radicalism, their oil, and their non-belligerence towards Israel.
Jessica Wu, a Los Angeles dermatologist and author of "Feed Your Face, " a book about nutrition and food-based topical treatments for skin, says "there is very little in the way of clinical trials" showing the anti-aging benefits of grapeseed oil.
Anti-BP sentiment has grown as oil has made its way to or near coastal areas.
At least Cameron has the bona fides to act as an oil sands critic, unlike anti-seal hunt crusaders from Brigette Bardot to Sir Paul McCartney.
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Teenagers in this study were put on a twelve-week regimen of fish oil supplements, and the results showed that taking fish oil was roughly on par with taking an anti-psychotic medication.
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"Their argument would be: Let's just live with the current mandate and see how that goes before we start adding to it, " he says, adding that Big Oil doesn't want to sound too anti-ethanol.
Oil prices are down, and America's anti-terrorist campaign has raised the heat on smuggling and money laundering, lucrative staples of Dubai's free-wheeling economy.
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When Dr Hugh Sinclair persuaded the British government in 1942 to supplement children's diets with orange juice and cod liver oil, he speculated that among other ills, poor diets could lead to anti-social behaviour.
But the anti-pipeline crowd is wrong in thinking that blocking Keystone XL will somehow stop development of the oil sands.
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