The embargo caused America's customers, especially Japan, to look elsewhere for sources of supply.
High fuel prices may fall as new sources of supply are exploited to fill rising demand from Asia.
Not only would China want to be sure it had other sources of supply if Iranian oil dries up.
Rather, as new sources of supply have arisen, new markets have opened, and companies have sought greater scale and specialization.
Diverse and new sources of supply, superior competitors (notably natural gas), and sluggish demand despite booming economies spell trouble for oilmen.
Merrill Lynch, says commodities such as iron, aluminum and oil have now reached levels where some key sources of supply are no longer profitable.
Ministers say they will also do more encourage water companies to find new sources of supply to try to reduce the impact of future droughts.
It is a secretive business with sources of supply kept confidential.
"It appears the Democrats are desperate to deny real gas price relief ... they are apparently united behind the misguided policy of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president who says don't provide any new sources of supply, " he said.
The way you do that is you cut off their bolt-hole so that there's nowhere that they can hide, and you cut off their sources of supply, both of money and of arms, and that has, that is going to be an ongoing operation.
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The shifting of the river and lack of other sources of water supply with consequent loss of vegetation has worsened the site conditions.
The Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq, which have vast and easily accessible reserves, are regarded as the obvious sources of new supply.
Even cash-rich banks will hoard their money if they fear that the interbank market will seize up and cut them off from sources of future supply.
Beijing is proving increasingly difficult to nail down on price thanks to its own eclectic sources of gas supply from Central Asia, Australia and its own domestic shale prospects.
"Given that world energy demand, and more particularly electricity demand, is increasing strongly, we need sources of electricity supply that are safe, affordable, with abundant fuel and are environmental benign, " he said.
Similarly, the rate of depletion in key sources of current oil supply is accelerating more rapidly than anticipated.
This has been done by seeking less expensive sources of labor and supply (frequently with corresponding complexity increases), and by squeezing greater efficiency out of the supply network.
Middle East and Russia -- Will remain the predominant sources of global energy supply, with all the political clout that gives them, and the attendant risk of political disruption.
According to one of TechCrunch's sources, Apple will control the supply of pins for its connector and will only sell them to partners when accessories meet Cupertino's standards.
Now Germany will have to find new sources to supply 23% of its power needs, which is the load its nuclear reactors carried in 2010.
We may not have a silver bullet, but we do have in this country limitless sources of energy, a boundless supply of ingenuity, huge imagination, amazing young people like you -- (applause) -- all of which can put -- all of which we can put to work to develop this new energy source.
And it gives us the figures on how vulnerable gas supplies are: households would suffer interruption of gas supply if more than 60% of sources are cut off, assuming that industrial users take the first impact and cut their demand.
Proposed on Friday by the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), G-RES would require nations that signed the agreement to supply 25% of their energy supply from renewable energy sources by 2025.
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Therefore, we are using various stop-losses, expert sources and somewhat unconventional methods of analyzing supply and or demand.
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Let consumers chose from among a diversified supply of energy sources.
That would force power companies to take more of their supply from green energy sources, like wave and tidal power.
Total silver supply from all of these sources climbed to 1.048 billion ounces in 2012 from 1.039 billion the year before, according to the World Silver Survey 2013.
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Again, diversity of supply has played a crucial role: the development of gas and other power sources has refuted the argument which held that governments must take charge because cheap electricity requires big, expensive plants.
With new silver sources opened up in the west, the supply of silver increased but with demand steady, the price steadily fell.
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On Monday, Ms. Merkel said the new nuclear policy wouldn't affect Germany's renewable energy targets, which call for generating 80% of Germany's energy supply from sources such as wind and solar, by 2050.
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