Soya beans and corn make oil and animal feed, as well as ethanol, to some controversy.
Many algae make oil, which they store as a foodstuff against an uncertain future.
All these nightmare scenarios make oil producers on American soil look attractive.
Acting on those ideas would make oil cheaper than it would otherwise have been - though not necessarily cheaper than it is now.
The specific things that make oil companies successful are in how to prospect for, find, drill for, pump up, refine and sell oil.
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Wells in shale plays have to undergo a process known as fracturing to boost the porosity of the rock and to make oil and gas flow to the well head.
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But as those wind down, the replacement fields are harder to tap, and requiring franking technology to make oil more recoverable from promising places like the Bakken Shale in the Dakotas.
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The one person who deserves no credit for this boom is Barack Obama. in fact, this Administration has bent over backwards to make oil and gas production and exploration as difficult as possible.
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Russia's finances have eased lately because higher world oil prices make its oil exports worth more.
Tightening or loosing the availability of capital, which the Federal Reserve has power over, will not change the balance of oil production to refinery capacity or make the oil producing nations politically stable.
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The digitalisation of oil production will make far more oil recoverable from any field.
On the other hand, events in the Middle East will only make their oil and gas more desirable.
The IEA welcomes the announcement made by Saudi Arabia that it intends to make incremental oil available to the market.
We have noted with disappointment that OPEC members today were unable to agree on the need to make more oil available to the market.
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To make an oil-collecting caisson, such a pile would be used as a collar around a funnel-topped tube that would sit over the leak.
Venezuela under President Chavez has been a vocal member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), helping to make sure oil prices stay high.
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Around the world when countries make major oil and gas discoveries there follows if not celebrating in the streets, high fives in the halls of governments.
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The grain is one of the key starting links in the country's food chain, used to make cooking oil, tofu products and in feed for the burgeoning pig industry.
"It needs oil to make the fertilizer, oil for the farm, oil for the food processing, oil for the packaging and oil to transport it to the shops, " he added.
In some instances, a combination of public stocks and reduced obligation on industry is used, and it would be up to each country to decide how make additional oil available to the market.
There's a risk of complacency (not, to be fair, from the first minister - he wants his prints all over this issue) that Scotland has the windy, wavy stuff, and the rest of the "Saudi Arabia of renewables" rhetoric will surely make us oil sheikh rich.
No matter how high the price goes, the oil majors cannot make a profit from oil they do not produce.
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Additionally, higher oil prices brought on by higher demand and lower production make these alternative oil sources financially feasible.
Robert's American Gourmet now performs a series of tests to make sure cheese and oil don't make its Booty too fatty.
"High oil prices are going to make people use less oil, pure and simple, " Pizer says.
Just as gasoline produces very little profit at a gas station, express oil change businesses make very little money on the oil change.
From Cabernet to Chardonnay, the seeds leftover from winemaking are used to make a cooking oil and skin-care products.
What he and others who make things using oil and natural gas are wondering is how long before consumers stop buying.
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