Gas, for the same amount of energy, costs about one-tenth of what oil does.
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Ed Kashi's work in the Niger Delta documents the existential nightmare of what oil wealth means in reality.
Now, I like green energy as well, but that's about 50 years' worth of what oil and gas receives.
Someone dealing in crude oil perhaps, who would like to know the details of who is shipping what oil where and when.
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We ought to be ruthless in our oversight of BP, and trying to understand what oil is not being contained that's leaking out around that rubber seal, once we know what that flow rate is.
Ira Flatow will be here with a conversation with Sylvia Earle about what the oil spill means for marine life.
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Its bosses believe that they have found an oil field, but they know neither how much oil it contains nor what the price of oil will be once they are ready to pump.
To tackle climate and oil, what we really need to do is reduce oil consumption.
These challenges, however, are more under our control than what happens in oil markets.
If the speculators are not to blame, what about the oil companies, which have failed to increase output in spite of record profits?
And it's unclear what our major oil companies have in mind in the future, now that it appears that instability and danger levels have increased greatly.
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What of big oil service firms, like Halliburton and Schlumberger?
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The new law meant an influx of fresh money buying oil futures as a financial investment rather than as a means of locking in future prices (which is what actual users of oil had been doing).
And in a year when oil prices were climbing, one has to ask what was going on at oil explorer Japan Energy Corp. (No. 49) and refiner-distributor Idemitsu Kosan (No. 51).
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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Sakhalin may soon offer all of Russia a foretaste of what large-scale oil investment can mean.
As for weaning ourselves off of imported oil: What if we reinstated domestic exploration and production?
Microarrays have been used extensively to understand what happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
However, I found it very interesting that everyone is absolutely certain about what comes next for oil prices.
At that depth, it can biodegrade more quickly, which is exactly what you want the oil to do.
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Argue amongst yourselves what it means to oil and then to the economy and then to the stock market and on and on.
Oil is what economists call a "fugitive resource, " a thing, like water or wild game, that migrates where it wants and is difficult to own in any conventional sense.
Rear Adm Mary Landry said crews saw an area measuring one mile by five miles (1.5km by 8km) of what appeared to be oil on the surface of the water.
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