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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Canada has one of the largest long-life oil deposits in the world and is a stable and secure source of supply.
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So that means our cars will be getting better gas mileage, saving 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the life of the program -- 1.8 billion.
As a result, the eminent biologist who runs the centre, Dr Robin Crump, was presented with a unique "before and after" study which is providing valuable information about the precise impact of oil on the life of the sea-shore.
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We received two nominations for "Hellfighters, " the lackluster 1968 John Wayne vehicle based on the life of oil well fire wrangler Red Adair.
Once again, at the Russia Calling forum run by VTB Bank in Moscow, leaders tried convincing investors that it was getting ready for life after oil.
But if the peak were to come after 2020 or 2030, as the International Energy Agency and other mainstream forecasters predict, then the rising tide of alternative fuels will help transform it into a plateau and ease the transition to life after oil.
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.
Ira Flatow will be here with a conversation with Sylvia Earle about what the oil spill means for marine life.
Fracking is an underground procedure that has been used safely and succesfully for decades to extend the life of older oil wells.
The 24-paged editorial, shot by photographer Steven Meisel, captures model Kristen McMenamy, covered in black grease, writhing about in feather dresses on a rocky, post-apocalyptic-looking beach, evoking the real-life images of oil-coated birds gasping for breath that dominated coverage of the spill.
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Canadian Oil Sands Trust has a reserve life index of 34 years.
This is making life tricky for international oil companies trying to do business in rough and tumble places while complying with U.S. or other domestic laws.
Forty years later, however, the reality remains that oil is an integral part of daily life and the dominant energy source.
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They made their money incrementally, in old-line industries like oil and banking, after a young life spent toiling at odd jobs brought savvy and street smarts.
However, Bishop Welby had the air of a man who, perhaps from a life spent as a senior oil company executive, is used to confidently managing people.
Welby has unusual standing in the world of money because in a previous life he served as an oil industry executive and now sits on the parliamentary banking standards committee.
However, Russia's current president, Vladimir Putin, has made life much tougher for western oil firms by restricting exploration by foreign outfits, making conditions stricter for joint-venture partners, and showing what would happen to dissenters with the dismemberment of Yukos.
Steve Hodge, treasurer of Shell, an Anglo-Dutch oil giant, says that a difference of only one percentage point in the discount rate can change the value of, say, an oil refinery with a 15-year life by hundreds of millions of dollars.
When we consider everything from hiring and promotion to delivering a closing argument to a jury to negotiating our next raise or demanding (ok, asking) for equity partnership at Skadden or entry into the executive ranks at Google or Union Oil as a challenge, all of life becomes so much easier.
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And while the nation waits, those most affected by the oil spill are literally watching their way of life die.
Not only is Palin pro-life, she favors drilling for oil and natural gas in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve--something McCain opposes.
Titian was famed for painting directly on to the canvas from life and very few drawings or oil sketches by him remain.
In the meantime, Wendy's is training its workers to use the corn and soy oil concoction, which has a shorter shelf life than the old version.
Most Gulf nationals are under 25, which means that they have grown up with high expectations of an easy life cushioned by the state and oil.
In the meantime, Wendy's (nyse: WEN - news - people ) is training its workers to use the corn and soy oil concoction, which has a shorter shelf life than the old version.
Finally, aside from asset management now would be a good time to start planning your future life in this potential reality of scarce oil.
But after the oil-price crash in the mid-1980s, life for most of the young became grim.
While war rages, a handful of Western outfits are risking capital--and life--to explore and produce plentiful oil.
The oil companies point out, and villagers agree, that life has improved significantly since the completion of the pipeline in 1998.
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