So I can sum up my tasting notes quite simply: it has a uniquely thick texture, unctuous and almost oily, but not in a bad way, in a citrus oil way.
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Gold is way down, oil is way down just a flight away from everything.
According to the oil spill council, fish do not metabolize oil the way mammals do.
Drivers are traveling farther between oil changes, and engines don't burn oil the way they used to.
It was also buying some sustainable oil, but like many others did not plan to buy all its oil this way until 2015.
Fears of a disruption now emanate from Iran's threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the route for a fifth of the world's oil, in response to a European Union embargo on Tehran's oil as way to pressure it to give up its controversial nuclear program.
But we are a precious long way from using solar and wind power to replace oil in any noticable way.
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Our reliance on oil makes us way too dependent on other parts of the world, many of which are very volatile.
"Oil cratering the way it has made alternatives less profitable and in less demand because of the cost differentials, " Miller said.
Even though U.S. firms can't buy petroleum directly from Iran, 2.5 million barrels a day of Iranian oil find their way into the world market.
He simplified the state constitution and, by changing the way oil production was taxed, ensured a windfall for the state treasury in oil's boom years.
Oil is the way of the future in Latin America.
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All those kids in inner cities, small farm towns -- kids dreaming of becoming scientists or doctors, engineers or entrepreneurs, diplomats or even a President -- they need a champion in Washington, because the future will never have as many lobbyists as the status quo -- children don't have lobbyists the way oil companies or banks do.
This new approach concedes ownership of the richest oil fields to Azerbaijan, but clears the way for Russian oil firms to exploit them as members of international consortia.
Helping secure Africa from turmoil would go a long way toward opening up a non-terrorist-funding oil supply chain on our way to a more ecologically-savvy future.
The Campaign to Kick the Oil Habit is one way to connect to this growing movement.
Here's a late-cycle performer that, should oil prices work their way higher again, could benefit.
Anti-BP sentiment has grown as oil has made its way to or near coastal areas.
Yet Twinkies are strategic, though not in the same way as oil or uranium.
Since electricity cannot be stored in the same way as oil, no such centralised buffer is possible.
No wide swings means no way is oil going to shed 50 percent of its value next year.
Unilever keeps buying its palm oil the same old way: sometimes without any clue where it came from.
All this comes before the effect of the recent dramatic fall in the oil price works its way through.
In essence, these are bets on which way the oil price will move.
The oil wealth affects the way Aberdonians think of their city's relationship with the rest of the country in two ways.
This price difference is why the Canadian oil will find its way to market regardless of whether the Keystone XL is built.
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Tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help offset rising oil prices is another way to keep prices stable, albeit short term.
Yet when he promised a few days ago that more oil is on the way, traders ignored him and the rally continued apace.
Pauls Malt Ltd, of Bury St Edmunds, admitted that oil from its Eastern Way premises had entered the River Lark, in November 2011.
Most of all, he believed that government through its misconceptions about the way the oil industry actually works has done more harm with its regulation than good.
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