Expect future cars to help motorists garner maximum mileage by leveraging technology like the eco-tutoring systems found in many hybrids, wider use of tire-pressure, oil life and engine-tuning monitoring systems and more-sophisticated GPS guidance that can select less-congested routes.
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While worries in the Middle East have caused a spike, oil prices face longer-term pressure due to increased demand from China and other emerging economies.
Like gold, oil has seen short-selling pressure in the futures market.
Chevron's admission that a spill from a high-pressure Shetland oil well could leak at a higher rate than BP's Macondo well (1, 500 metres below the surface) didn't help.
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An EU embargo of Iranian crude would halt around 600, 000 barrels a day of imports, hitting Europe's refiners hard and further tightening markets and inventories, putting upward pressure on oil-futures prices, the International Energy Agency has said.
Meantime, crude oil prices were lower Tuesday on follow-through pressure from big losses Monday.
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Early safe-haven buying gave way to heavy selling pressure that was due to strong gains in the U.S. dollar index, sharp losses in crude oil and other commodity markets, profit-taking pressure and weak-handed long liquidation.
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Crude oil prices were sharply lower Thursday on follow-through selling pressure after solid losses posted Wednesday.
Meantime, crude oil prices are slightly lower Monday morning on follow-through pressure from big losses Monday.
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Many were culled from investor conferences like the Money Show or via high-pressure salesmen to buy working interests in oil wells.
Margin requirements in the spotlight this week again after the CME Group, owner of futures exchange NYMEX, announced a 25% hike in collateral requirements for crude oil futures, putting initial, and short-lived, pressure on WTI and Brent prices.
If oil is discovered offshore, the pressure for greater economic co-operation will be strong.
Profit-taking pressure, position evening and lower crude oil prices are putting some initial downside price pressure on the precious metals early Friday.
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Jassem Saadoun, a Kuwaiti economist, observes that in the past, higher oil revenues have reduced pressure on governments to push through badly-needed reforms.
Crude oil prices are trading lower again early Monday, on follow-through selling pressure from strong losses posted on Friday.
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And of course it didn't help that oil set a new high with its largest single-day gain, putting further pressure on consumers who are already sweating record gas prices.
The pressure in the capped-off well could blow a new hole in it, letting oil and gas leak out through the seabed.
Fracking uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to crack rock formations and release oil and natural gas deep underground.
Serious near-term technical damage was inflicted in the crude oil market Wednesday, to suggest still more downside price pressure for oil in the near term.
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In the latter half of 2011, the Dubai-based Noor Islamic Bank, under pressure from the US Treasury, stopped clearing Iran's oil money.
In some locations, sedimentation created sufficient pressure to convert -- to cook -- the unoxidized carbon in the organic material into oil, some of which was trapped in reservoirs.
It extracts oil from the ground using a method called fracking - pumping down a mixture of sand, water and chemicals at high pressure.
While other attempts are planned to block the hole, it is probable that oil will continue to pour from it for another couple of months, until relief wells are drilled to intersect and reduce the pressure in the currently flowing well and cut-off the leakage of perhaps 50 million barrels of oil contained there by the injection of concrete deep into the seabed.
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