The sheets are then soaked in oil, which penetrates the rubber and creates oil-filled cavities around each of the balls, allowing them to rotate freely.

ECONOMIST: Showing off

Page turning was slow and was accompanied by a distracting flash of black as the microspheres dived down into their oil-filled nodules before forming new text.

NEWYORKER: A New Page

He manned one of the oil-filled trenches that were burned to obscure the Baghdad skies in an attempt to hinder the Iraqi capital's bombing by coalition warplanes.

CNN: Unpaid Iraqi soldiers start receiving salaries, but discontent simmers

Dr Schulton said that the demands of the tourist industry - fearing television pictures of oil-filled beaches - meant that "sound" planning in environmental terms was not carried out.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Oil spills 'should go to beaches'

For their calculations, the two assumed that where there was a gap between demand and conventional supply it would be filled with synthetic fuels, first with tar-sands oil and later with oil from coal and shale. (According to high-end estimates, coal and oil shale could together yield some ten trillion barrels of unconventional crude.) They then calculated what the impact would be on global carbon-dioxide levels.

NEWYORKER: Unconventional Crude

Trenches have reportedly been dug around Iraqi cities and filled with oil, which, when set ablaze, could confuse laser-guided munitions.

ECONOMIST: The coming war

Fracking of oil and natural gas has created, directly and indirectly, more than a million high-paying jobs and has filled entire states, such as North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania, with boom towns, while repairing their public finances.

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