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Example sentences for: petroleum

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Ethanol is a ludicrous fuel made out of corn, at a cost far higher than the petroleum it replaces, produced with a huge government tax subsidy, which started during the energy crisis a quarter-century ago and has long since become a classic case study of stupid policy entrenched by special interests (in this case farmers and Archer Daniels Midland, the company responsible for the fabulous discovery that if you tell the government what to do in commercials on every Sunday talk show, the government apparently is powerless to resist).
British Petroleum, the world's third-largest oil company, announced that "there is now enough scientific evidence to warrant concern about whether human activity--primarily the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas--is changing Earth's climate."
This has been supplemented by the spread of lucrative palm oil plantations, the discovery of rich new reserves of petroleum and natural gas off the north coast of Borneo and the east coast of the peninsula, and development of manufacturing and tourism industries.
But three petroleum engineers writing in the Journal of Petroleum Technology explained in 1971 why this is not the case.