Officials were also forced to move barges that had been preventing oil from reaching sensitive wetlands.
Commodities like oil are particularly sensitive to the value of the dollar, while U.S. demand is important for global demand.
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Although these laws are not certain to pass, many big charterers, especially publicity-sensitive oil firms, have been frightened away from old vessels.
Though oil is a sensitive topic for many Mexicans who learn state ownership is one of the three main principles of the constitution, its production has fallen year after year.
Except for oil, most sensitive commodity prices have risen only slightly after years of decline, the dollar remains strong, real short-term interest rates are near historical norms, and productivity growth has accelerated in recent quarters.
The oil market is so sensitive about Saudi Arabia because the country is so important to world oil production.
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Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price.
Hess and Occidental Petroleum are the most sensitive to oil prices in his coverage area.
The Western economy is much less sensitive to oil prices than it was a quarter century ago.
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Economically sensitive stuff like crude oil and copper fell.
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What if you are a mere consumer of energy--that is, neither your job nor the value of your home is particularly sensitive to the price of oil?
On a day-to-day basis, the correlation can break, but over the long term it has been strong because the value of the Canadian dollar has good reason to be sensitive to the price of oil.
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Such efforts appear to be paying dividends, not the least of which is with respect to controlling the strategically sensitive Caspian Sea's immense oil reserves.
Chevron wanted to build offshore near the environmentally sensitive Coronado Islands, while Marathon Oil won few fans with a plan to build in Tijuana, a few miles down coastal Highway 1 from the site of Donald Trump's new oceanfront high-rise condo.
Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people ) wanted to build offshore near the environmentally sensitive Coronado Islands, while Marathon Oil won few fans with a plan to build in Tijuana, a few miles down coastal Highway 1 from the site of Donald Trump's new oceanfront high-rise condo.
"Oil development cannot be done in an 'environmentally sensitive' manner, " said a Sierra Club statement on its Web site.
As crude oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico and threaten the sensitive ecosystem, the blame game has reached a fevered pitch even before the well is capped and a prudent and thorough investigation takes place.
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