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.
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.
Gold is way down, oil is way down just a flight away from everything.
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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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.
In essence, these are bets on which way the oil price will move.
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.
Either way, oil investors with the right picks in their portfolio will prosper, and the Casey Research energy team will be available to guide you along the way.
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Last year a Dutch study found that draining Indonesian swamps to make way for oil-palm plantations resulted in 33 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions for each tonne of palm oil produced, by speeding up the decomposition of the peaty soil.
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.
But today, the two countries reached a compromise that paves the way for the oil to resume flowing.
Mechanical systems like skimmers, centrifuges, and reverse osmosis machines can go a long way towards separating oil from water.
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Nevermind that pipelines are far and away the safest and most environmentally sound way to transport oil and natural gas.
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Yet Feng Xiaoyuan, Feng Bingxian and Wang Shijun, who had been on their way to becoming oil millionaires, continued to press their case.
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Petropolitics, a word coined by Tom Friedman in Foreign Policy Magazine to describe the way nations with oil tend to be less democratic than nations without oil.
Less than two years after Enron was formed, a trader in the company's Valhalla office lost hundreds of millions of dollars betting the wrong way on crude oil.
It is looking for inspiration anywhere, from Car magazine to the way that the oil industry polices itself, in its search for ways of promoting greater interest in transparency.
Coal and gas are still way bigger than oil or nukes in our grid, but my point is really just that an exponential curve can catch up with a linear one in a surprising way. 14% doubling every few years means we could be only a decade away from 100% clean energy.
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The prime minister urged the wealthy oil-producing Gulf nations to invest more in areas such as carbon capture and storage, as a way of diversifying beyond oil.
But we are a precious long way from using solar and wind power to replace oil in any noticable way.
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Or put it another way, as go oil fears, so goes money into gold and silver.
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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.
That is a fancy way of saying that Oil Creek Valley put the whale oil industry out of business.
We can, however, invest and invent our way to freedom from oil.
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It was also buying some sustainable oil, but like many others did not plan to buy all its oil this way until 2015.
According to the FDD poll, fully 91% of the respondents quite sensibly recognize that fuel choice is the best way to reduce our oil addiction.
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