As for Canada's heralded oil sands region--sure it's a massive resource, but easy oil it ain't.
Mr. ROUTS: We tend to say to our investors that easy oil is over.
Easy oil money probably prevents more widespread development in many OPEC countries.
Unquestionably, this is a tragedy, but if there is any defining message to be drawn from it, it is that the age of cheap, easy oil is over and we may now contemplate the dawn of hard (to get) oil.
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Complicating matters, Mexico's oil output has slipped to 2.55 million barrels a day from a peak of 3.4 million in 2004, as easy oil in the Gulf is replaced by more difficult reserves of deep-water oil and heavy oil onshore.
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It has been easy to skim oil from Iraqi refineries and pipelines since most meters in place are not in working order.
Surprisingly, for a man who got his start in the oil business, Bush even bungled an easy question from Steve Forbes about oil pricing.
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As pictures of the spill appear nightly on television screens, it is easy to forget that oil has value.
That started changing with enormous geopolitical consequences after easy, high quality oil was found in the Arabian Peninsula and other parts of the Middle East.
That's not to say it will be easy to produce that much oil, Yergin says.
Around one hundred years ago, the US began tax credits and easy financing support for the oil and gas industries.
In Mr Gore's case in particular, there are good reasons to keep oil prices in the spotlight: they provide an easy link to Mr Bush's ties to the oil industry, which is currently making record profits.
Running an oil company is not easy, and the boss of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a chemical engineer by training, has shown something of a flair for it.
The easy gains to be made from oil have led to a catastrophic over-reliance on the black stuff to provide the country's wealth, while successive governments have left the rest of the economy to wither and decay.
However, in one case the judges ordered a subsidiary, Shell Nigeria, to compensate a farmer for breach of duty of care by making it too easy for saboteurs to open an oil well head that leaked on to his land.
Thus armed, tackling the recipe itself an elemental combination of confectioner's sugar, flour, eggs and anise oil is easy. (You may have most of the ingredients on hand already.) For leavening, purists prefer a pinch of hartshorn (aka baker's ammonia), which is traditional in Scandinavian baking and thought to produce a tender, fluffier crumb but conventional baking powder more than suffices.
Life is less easy than might be expected in an oil-rich state with a government that subsidises food, health and education.
Because Bolivians have earned little from their mineral wealth, it is easy to whip up opposition to foreign oil and gas companies.
However, since Saddam was toppled in April, those elements opposed to the coalition's occupation of Iraq have found oil installations and pipelines an easy target.
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Most Gulf nationals are under 25, which means that they have grown up with high expectations of an easy life cushioned by the state and oil.
Moreover, building better machines is something that we have had ton of luck at over the past several hundred years and is a more reliable source of growth than finding new easy-to-get deposits of oil and gas or decreasing the long run volatility in energy prices.
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You see how they become easy pickings for people who have snake-oil merchants for solving all their problems.
Finding out exactly how the oil largesse is dispensed is not easy.
They're easy to fix with just a bit of olive oil, margarine or butter, salt and pepper.
Simulating a major fire on an oil rig for training purposes is not an easy thing to do.
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