Whites are first- or second-generation newcomers, whether conservative oil men or left-wing environmentalists.
But the reduction in oil use from the first-generation Volt is negligible.
"This is the worst time we've ever had in the business, " says Matt Bjornson, third-generation co-owner of Bjornson Oil Company in Cavalier, N.
The company is continuing to pursue contracts in the offshore oil and gas industries - and also in wind power generation from offshore sites.
According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants consume roughly twice the water than that of gas-fired facilities while nuclear generation needs three times that of natural gas.
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As the oil industry deals with the lowest inflation-adjusted prices in a generation, geophysicist L. Decker Dawson laughs.
Ironically, given its far greater effort to tackle climate change, the European Union has seen its emissions rise, partly because its higher gas prices (linked to oil) have led to an increase in coal-fired power generation.
The idea of obtaining more energy from off-shore and Arctic oil and gas deposits and accelerating the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants will continue to receive at least presidential lip service.
Gas does now contribute 35% to power generation, but rock-bottom prices and a sniffiness about gas as oil's poor relation mean that exploiting its bounty (Saudi Arabia apparently has the world's fifth-largest gas reserves) has proven hard.
Now add onto that the fact that we have got, for the first time in a generation, growing crude oil production, growing natural gas production, and growing natural-gas liquids production.
In Chevron's 50-story complex in downtown Houston, geophysicists are sniffing out the next generation of deepwater oil wells.
Some will no doubt remember back to a generation ago, when sponsorship signage on race cars was basically limited to motor oil and beer--STP, Pennzoil, and Anheuser-Busch 's Budweiser were staples.
Some will no doubt remember back to a generation ago, when sponsorship signage on race cars was basically limited to motor oil and beer--STP, Pennzoil, and Anheuser-Busch 's (nyse: BUD - news - people ) Budweiser were staples.
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