The Sudanese government uses money from crude oil to finance the mass murder of Christians, according to the United Nations.
Sudan began developing its oil resources in 1998, an enterprise that activists maintain has entailed mass expulsions of civilians from areas surrounding the oil fields and human rights abuses.
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.
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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She asked: So what is the connection between that oil business and terrorism and weapons of mass destruction?
The only likely additional dividend from Libya's gratitude for the hand-over would be a commercial one, for instance in the country's rich hydrocarbons business and swapping a mass-murderer for an oil contract would be disgraceful.
Can a mass-market retailer successfully sell both gourmet olive oil to City analysts in London and white bread north of Watford?
The proceeds help the odious government in Khartoum prosecute its efforts to enslave or exterminate Christians and others living in that country's oil-rich south, support terrorism and procure weapons of mass destruction.
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.
The Turks would use the oil for benign domestic purposes, rather than for acquiring weapons of mass destruction and oppressing the local population.
For instance, with respect to Iran in 1995, President Clinton's former Under Secretary of State for Policy said, ""A straight line links Iran's oil income and its ability to sponsor terrorism, build weapons of mass destruction, and acquire sophisticated armaments.
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.
Once again the Chavistas won because they took advantage of huge state resources that include mass media, intimidation of public employees and the use of the oil giant, PDVSA, to fund their political campaign.
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Then we did it again in the 20th century with the convergence of communication and energy: Centralized electricity especially the telephone and then later radio and television became the communication vehicles to manage a more dispersed Second Industrial Revolution, organized around the oil-powered internal combustion engine, suburban construction and the creation of a mass consumer society.
"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.
McAuliffe said Bush told the American people that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that he had a plan to win the peace, that Iraqi oil revenues would pay for reconstruction, that the United States would take democracy to Iraq and that U.S. forces would be greeted as liberators.
These considerations lay at the heart of the decision (lest we forget, supported overwhelmingly and on a bipartisan basis at the time) to liberate Iraq in the first place, thus denying terrorists a sanctuary with vast oil resources, a strategic location and a technology base and industrial capacity affording access to weapons of mass destruction.
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.
This rule has been designed to counteract Saddam Hussein's penchant for extracting illegal surcharges on oil exports and using them, as he has for years, to line his pockets and finance his weapons of mass destruction programs, support for terrorism, etc.
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