He has made 30 more since, combining traditional wheelwork with new technical advances like oil-free escapements.
Fundamentally, it's a grassroots initiative, and Hopkins believes that the move to an oil-free society is about community and individuals more than industry and government.
FTAs with the United States (although his country in effect has one, sending 1.5m barrels per day of oil tariff-free).
Now baking some 8, 000 to 10, 000 oil- and preservative-free cupcakes each week (a second location has recently been added uptown), quality remains uncompromised by quantity as he sticks firm to his philosophy of same-day baked desserts with the sponge made strictly with real milk, sugar, cream and butter.
The brothers are also thinking of putting the Crisco name on a fat-free cooking oil of Smucker's called Baking Healthy.
But the truth is, the fast-food giant has already been cooking with trans-fat free oil in about 1, 200 test restaurants nationwide.
No doubt investors will carefully gauge consumer reaction to the switch to trans-fat free oil, particularly on the taste on its signature fries.
It is seen, therefore, as a bridge fuel, one that takes us from coal and oil to some mix of carbon-free energy in the future.
The museum's collection vividly charts Dubai's rapid progress from a tiny pre-oil fishing and pearling village - and one of the world's first free-trade ports - through to the Arabian metropolis it is today.
They are being tapped to talk up just about everything, from movies to milk and motor oil--and they do it for free.
This, together with restrictive labour regulations, means that there is little non-oil foreign direct investment in Iran, except for pilot projects in the free-trade zones.
Three incidents Santa Barbara (1969), Exxon Valdez (1989), and the Deepwater Horizon (2010) illustrate the oil and natural gas business is not risk-free.
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Suspending disbelief for the moment and assuming new drilling would be allowed, joining this treaty would be far from cost-free, either for the oil industry or for the American consumer.
The crude oil killed all of the larvae whereas the nicotine-free stuff left a fifth of them alive after two days.
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Selling people what they already can have almost for free - in bottles produced from oil, 70% of which are never recycled.
Whole Vine produces grapeseed oil and grapeseed flour from vineyard byproducts, and gluten-free cookies, too.
John Davidson Rockefeller - the founder of the Rockefeller empire - went to China and gave away oil lamps for free.
And if cars switch from oil to electricity, the demand for power generated from carbon-free sources will increase still further.
Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are traveling the country as part of Operation Free, campaigning to end our dependence on oil -- (applause) -- we have a few of these folks here today, right there. (Applause.) The young people of this country -- that I've met all across America -- they understand that this is the challenge of their generation.
Is oil, to return to Burroughs, the ideal commodity for neoliberal free-market capitalism?
The only way to get rid of the resulting beef and butter mountains and wine and oil lakes was to subsidise their export, tarnishing Europe's free-trading credentials.
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Dr Alamaro wants to use a gas-burning, rather than a coal- or oil-burning plant, because the exhaust produced by burning natural gas is free from sulphur dioxide, which plants hate.
Last year the government renounced a bill that would have opened parts of an existing national park to the oil industry only after the ensuing row threatened to undermine a proposed free-trade deal with America.
Despite the public outcry over the BP oil spill earlier this year and an extraordinarily active lame-duck Congress within the last month, oil companies managed to wriggle free of some big tax hikes aimed at the industry.
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The US gets much of its oil from Canada and Venezuela, but new supplies coming on line from drama-free Petrobras would be good for the US who is on the constant look-out for crude from friendly states in friendly regions of the globe.
Packing their computers with everything from foam insulation to cooking oil, these quiet-crazed modders are pursuing the holy grail of a noise-free PC.
Either would represent another wasted opportunity to make a critical large-scale investment in our clean tech competitiveness and a future free from oil.
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From Texas business circles came his unflinching support for free trade and tax-breaks, as well as his unstinting protection of the interests of oil and gas men.
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