High oil-yielding strains of algae can be grown and dried and the oil extracted from the dry algal mass, before being similarly converted to biodiesel in a process called transesterification.

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Personal electric cars are still a far better option than personal hydrogen cars for all kinds of reasons, but if governments are serious about introducing electric transportation in place of oil, the creation of electrified mass passenger transport, e.g. trains and trams would be the better way to go.

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Can a mass-market retailer successfully sell both gourmet olive oil to City analysts in London and white bread north of Watford?

ECONOMIST: Face value

If China eventually uses as much oil on a per capita basis as crowded, good-mass transit-having, high gasoline tax Western Europe, it will come to between 26 million bpd and 30 million bpd, an increase of between 18 million bpd and 22 million bpd.

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The ceasefire resolutions that ended the Gulf war six years ago decreed that stiff economic sanctions would remain on Iraq, including a ban on the great bulk of its oil sales, until it had handed over all its weapons of mass destruction, along with the equipment and materials to build them.

ECONOMIST: That man again

"Even a company as big as BP can, and will, be driven into bankruptcy" if lawyers can convince judges to allow mass-tort lawsuits over, say, exposure to toxic chemicals in the oil, said Lester Brickman, a professor at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law.

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The attorney is also looking to Congress, where Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has sponsored a bill to clarify that the OPA doesn't preclude state suits over oil spills.

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