Without oil revenues, Russia will run a deficit of around 11% of GDP in 2012.
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Journe was tinkering to see if he could redesign the Centigraphe to work without oil while still protecting the delicate mechanism from wear and tear.
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.
For dinner, she prepares a piece of protein, like unseasoned chicken oven-baked without oil, accompanied by a serving of steamed veggies such as broccoli, squash or asparagus.
What started as an idea of "running a country without oil" in a white paper quickly evolved from vision to reality in the company's first two markets, Israel and Denmark.
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If the oceans do not make your heart go pitter-patter, how about engineering a bacteria that eats carbon dioxide -- and thus helps protect the world from overheating -- AND excretes fuel which will allow us to drive our cars and machines, without oil?
Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.
You wouldn't take a machine out into the field without putting oil in it.
There will be no industrial comeback for Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania without stable oil and gas prices.
Those south of the border might concern themselves with how they would cope without the oil revenue.
An argument could be made that the Cuban economy would have collapsed without the oil it gets from Venezuela.
Statoil knows which side its bread is buttered, especially without major oil and tax breaks to improve Shtokman economics.
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But without the oil companies and the environmentalists on board?
Germany, without domestic oil resources, faced a real energy crisis.
"Mexico is aware this is the end of the oil era, so we need to implement this fiscal reform - and if we go through it, we'll be able to do without this oil, " he said.
Without offshore oil and gas, Scotland's GDP is in a similar position to that of the UK as a whole, and its share of taxes paid to the UK Treasury is thought to be slightly lower than that share of Scotland's population.
Do any of you believe we can reduce the dependence on foreign oil without investing in alternative sources of energy, renewable energy?
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So this is where the IFS has a suggestion which is both attractive and challenging: balance the budget without dependence on oil and gas.
Most companies would refuse to sign new contracts to buy or sell Iraqi oil without a clear resolution of the issue by the UN.
Fuel it with 85 percent ethanol made from woody, weedy stuff like switchgrass, and you'll save three-fourths of the remaining oil without interfering with food production.
In 1933 the new Iranian king, Reza Shah (a populist constitutional revolution soldier who challenged the authority of the Mullahs), challenged the British method of Iranian oil misappropriation: he declared that the British could no longer get away with taking Iranian oil without paying Iran its fair share.
Buying DCR like shorting crude oil but without the nuisances (such as margin calls and tax issues).
The collection manifold, which separates or combines oil flows without interrupting the overall flow, appears to have been damaged by an explosion.
Plenty of countries, after all, manage to produce oil offshore without devastating environmental consequences, as America itself does in the Gulf of Mexico.
Without a spike in oil or food prices - triggered by geo-political events or bad weather - the inflation picture in 2012 will be quite benign.
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