The price of oil aside, he says, the issues that stoked interest in clean tech, including global warming and energy security, are as prominent as ever.
And being willing to put the oil revenues aside means that Norway has high taxes to fund its services.
As finance minister, he wound up a fund that set aside some oil revenue for buying back debt.
Mr. WOODS: Critical to all of this is a sense of a population that has seen all of the excitement over the discovery oil completely been pushed aside by the actual manipulation.
The government will put aside some of its oil profits in a stabilisation fund, for spending when the oil price falls.
Unless a law is passed, those fines -- which will likely amount to billions of dollars -- could instead be set aside for some future oil spill.
Oil and metals magnate Viktor Vekselberg set aside business Thursday night to raise funds for, of all things, a California state park.
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"In the case of oil, speculative activity tends to ensure that a portion of the oil that is currently produced is put aside to guard against the possibility of disruptions or shortages in the future, " Bernanke wrote.
Leave aside for a moment exactly why oil consumption should fall: climate change, the costs of imports, relaince upon dictatorial states for supply and so on.
Still, those with money, an elite that is extremely rich from oil, have almost nothing to spend it on, aside from shopping trips to Johannesburg, Lisbon or Paris.
In February 2011, when commodities exchanges raised the amount of their own capital that speculators must set aside in order to trade, the price of oil fell 10% within a few months.
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In recent months, China has elbowed Japan aside to become the world's second-largest oil importer.
Putting aside her faith in the life-sustaining qualities of olive oil, the Californian researchers assumed that Mrs Calment's otherwise unexceptional life had been prolonged because of her genes.
Oil giant BP has posted a fall in full-year profits after setting aside money to cover liabilities for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Once the world's second-biggest oil company, BP has fallen to fourth place among the "oil majors" after selling off billions of dollars worth of assets to set aside money to cover liabilities related to the disaster.
Indeed, the biggest difference between Shell and Chevron in the United States (aside from Alaska) is that Chevron has long been more focused on oil, while Shell gets a bigger portion of its production from natural gas.
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