On Wednesday, the airline sector fell hard as oil prices rose, although though shares of Midwest Air Group kicked up 5.3% on word of a higher bid for the company from AirTran Holdings.
If teams find waste oil hard to come by they can load up with fresh cooking oil from supermarkets.
Perhaps it is not as sympathetic to hard-pressed oil consumers as King Abdullah claims.
Workers in apparel, rubber, plastics, furniture, primary metals and transportation equipment are especially hard hit by oil price increases.
The Scandinavian country, which was hard hit by oil price rises in the 1970s, now gets the majority of its electricity from nuclear and hydroelectric power.
For 13 years they have been happy to give carte blanche to Ralph Klein, their rumpled, tough-talking premier, granting his Conservative government four whopping majorities as he led his province from hard times to oil-fired prosperity.
Commodities have been rising on account of demand and loose monetary policy in the US, in particular, where near-zero capital costs have weakened the dollar and turned money managers onto hard assets like oil, gold, and agricultural commodities.
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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As has been pointed out before in Forbes the Brazilian oil company Petrobras is coming but hard behind Exxon to be the largest oil company in the world.
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Lufkin manufactures pumps and lifts designed to help extract natural gas and oil from hard-to-reach reservoirs.
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That's weakening the dollar, so investors are pouring their money into hard assets, like oil.
For both firms, a stake in big, relatively cheap and under-exploited (albeit often hard to exploit) oil fields would be a plus.
It is hard to find an oil and gas company involved in both exploration and production that is doing as lousy as Petrobras.
In search of hard currency for its oil and weapons, Russia had already established new ties with more prosperous South Korea just before the Soviet collapse.
With Iran's strategic alliance with Venezuela, once it controls Saudi oil fields, it hard to see how it would not become the undisputed ruler of the oil economy.
Higher oil prices and inflationary fears hit the stock market hard on Tuesday, and even the big oil companies were under pressure.
The selloff in commodities hit the precious metals hard this week, with oil and silver dropping substantially.
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In the absence of rising stocks, it is hard to argue that the oil markets have lost their grip on reality.
In early 19th- century Pennsylvania, this goo was considered a depressor of property values because oil made it hard to grow crops and made farm animals sick.
Future models of the mechanical mollusk could be used for invasive surgeries or to conduct tests in hard to reach places like oil wells thousands of feet underground, said Hosoi.
But the real thing to be excited about here is that Amarin may gather hard proof that giving fish oil to people with high triglycerides lowers their risk of heart attacks.
Oil prices fell hard on the day as well.
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It's a guess based on how much is known, and likely new finds, and how much technology might improve over the next few decades at extracting oil from those hard-to-reach rock formations.
The issues do not involve sectarian hatred but "the cold, hard issues of land and oil and cash, as well as the distribution of power between Iraq's center and its regions and provinces, " they wrote.
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It distorts economic decision making: Hard assets, such as oil, gold and land, may look awfully good when the cost of living is rising more than 10% a year--which is what happened in the 1970s and early 1980s.
In the absence of any competition from the West, China has cheerfully plundered Myanmar's bountiful reserves of hard wood, jade, oil, gas and much else, usually with little regard for the environment or the well-being of those Burmese who stood in their way.
But after that, hard assets such as houses and oil might be more profitable.
Even the biggest oil companies today are hard pressed to generate net margins of 10%.
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