These factors suggest that railroads could be in the crude oil transportation business for the long haul.
Gazprom said it was acting following a request from Botas, the Turkish state gas and oil transportation company.
Those who see weaker prices next week said, while gold might be oversold in the short-term, the medium-term technical picture has turned negative and that could lead to weaker prices, even as geopolitical worries heat up, such as saber-rattling by Iran over possibly closing the Straits of Hormuz, a key shipping lane for oil transportation.
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Inflation has to be controlled, and oil and transportation costs affect many areas, including food costs.
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"We look forward to working with AeroVironment to help reduce the use of oil for transportation, " said Robbie Alm, Hawaiian Electric executive vice president.
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The commitment comes as economics are changing for making goods overseas: Labor costs are rising in Asia, while oil and transportation costs are high and increasingly uncertain.
If we could slash the amount of oil consumed by transportation, we could substantially dampen the effect of what seems like an inevitable oil shock over the next decade.
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We use that oil mainly for transportation -- cars, SUVs, and other vehicles.
Natural gas will have a harder time replacing oil as a transportation fuel, but there are movements spearheaded by T.
What about future alternatives to oil-based transportation?
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"A leading engineer and manufacturer of high-quality, flexible pipeline products for oil and gas transportation in the susbsea production industry, " Wellstream's acquisition demonstrates a double interest by GE to both tap the deepwater drilling business and enter one of the world's most dynamic economies in the sector, Brazil.
Just in industries directly related to autos, trillions of dollars change hands each year flowing to and from auto insurers, auto financiers, service and repair shops, rental agencies, taxi operators, fleet managers, oil companies, transportation and logistics companies, emergency rooms, health insurers, medical practices, personal-injury lawyers, government taxing authorities, road-construction companies, parking-lot operators, and on and on and on.
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We also have huge land and offshore oil reserves vital for transportation fuel, including enormous amounts contained along with gas in oil shale deposits amounting to several hundred years of supply.
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It is important to note that 71 percent of all imported oil is consumed by transportation.
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Industries like oil and gas, transportation and logistics management rely on it to keep us safe.
Most MLPs are involved in the transportation of oil and natural gas through pipelines owned by the partnership.
One area where Kenya may play a greater role in the future is in the production and transportation of oil.
The company partners with leading global companies in the transportation, oil and gas, aerospace, defence, distributed generation and portable power markets.
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Believe it or not, we could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States.
In addition to these traditional areas of investment, creative market solutions are also emerging, such as rail transportation of crude oil.
At that point, oil sands producers would be stuck with growing volumes of oil and waiting for other transportation options to materialize.
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Private automobiles now account for more than half of all U.S. oil consumption, and the transportation sector as a whole uses almost three-quarters.
Deserving of serious consideration are master limited partnerships (MLPs), which are publicly traded partnerships that own pipelines and storage and transportation facilities for oil, gas and refined products.
Their idea is compelling: Reduce dramatically the use of oil in America's transportation sector by utilizing existing technologies massively and rapidly to ramp up the availability of alternative fuels (ethanol, methanol and electricity) and the vehicles that can use them.
On July 15, 1996, President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order No. 13010, in which he identified eight infrastructure systems critical to the nation's survival: telecommunications, electric power systems, oil and gas storage, transportation, banking and finance, storage and transportation, water supply systems, and emergency services (including medical, police, fire and rescue, and continuity of government).
Master Limited Partnership Magellan Midstream Partners ( MMP) is involved in the transportation and storage of oil in the United States.
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And yet both are dependent on an infrastructure of electricity and transportation that leads to oil spills, high asthma rates, contaminated water, etc.
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After all, America and Europe are still where most of the customers are, and with the price of oil on the rise, cheaper transportation costs might come into the mix.
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So long as Washington stays open to sharing technology with the commercial satellite business, GeoEye can attack new markets for its imagery, particularly industries such as mining, oil and gas, insurance and transportation.
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