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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).
Instead, Slifka is a Bostonian who owns Global Petroleum Corp., New England's largest distributor of gasoline.
As the Journal points out, that's understandable: on the one hand, although political moderation is on the upswing in Iran, the country is still judged by the State Department to be "the most active sponsor of state terrorism," but on the other, making nice would enhance U.S. companies' access to the Caspian Sea oil fields, the world's most significant untapped petroleum and gas reserves.
According to Global 2000 , between 1975-2000, "the world's remaining petroleum resources per capita can be expected to decline by at least 50 percent."
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.