Sentences with phrase «oil helps transport»

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The pipeline would help transport clogged U.S. shale oil as well.

So the pipeline is being built by an American company to help small - to - medium sized American oil companies transport American oil to American refineries in the Midwest for American drivers.

Such micro-structured surfaces have helped design new surfaces that mimic surfaces found in nature, such as self - cleaning surfaces, reduced - drag surfaces, surfaces capable of transporting liquids in microfluidic systems, variants with anti-icing or heat transfer properties, and even surfaces that facilitate oil - water separation.

Studies suggest that consumption of whole walnuts or their extracted oil can reduce cardiovascular risk, by helping HDL — good cholesterol — perform more effectively in transporting and removing excess cholesterol from the body.

Large companies are more likely to hedge against oil price moves, and again, the upswing may help upstream more since they are the ones drilling and selling the direct oil rather than buying it to transport, refine and market.

«It's not a tax on water, it's a tax on plastic,» says Alderman George Cardenas, who introduced the measure to help offset revenue declines from the city water system, reduce litter and decrease the amount of oil used to produce and transport bottled water.»

Due to the high cost of capturing, transporting, and sequestering carbon dioxide, EPA expects that any new coal fired power plants built in the foreseeable future will defray the costs of CCS by selling its carbon dioxide to oil companies, which can use the gas to help extract oil by displacing liquid fuels deep underground, in a process known as CO2 enhanced oil recovery (or CO2 - EOR).

A shift to plug - in cars could also help the development of renewable power, all the more important since a proliferation of electric cars would alter the national pattern of carbon emissions — the utility sector would take on the emissions that once belonged oil - based transport.

Even if it were, CCS could do nothing to help reduce emissions from burning oil, almost all of which, in the UK, is used for transport and heating.

Joseph Romm and Peter Fox - Penner, Plugging into the Grid: How Plug - in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Can Help Break America's Oil Addiction and Slow Global Warming (Washington, DC: Progressive Policy Institute, 2007); Roger Duncan, «Plug - In Hybrids: Pollution - Free Transport on the Horizon,» Solar Today, May / June 2007, p. 47.

Further, the pipeline would help the environment, because moving oil by pipeline produces 42 percent fewer emissions than transporting oil by rail, which is how the oil is being transported in lieu of the new pipeline.