Sentences with phrase «depleting oil resources»

However, in view of the depleting oil resources, there is some potential that this assumption may not be valid.

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Report after report predicts that with resources depleting and global population continuing to grow, water could soon become as hot a commodity as oil.

Even oil and gas companies, if they would consider their long - term futures, would see the disadvantages in rapidly depleting their natural resources.

In an era of depleting mineral oil resources natural gas is becoming ever more relevant, even though the gas is difficult to transport and not easily integrated in the existing industrial infrastructure.

Resources are depleted, oil's the most valuable thing on earth, currency useless, racers compete for oil - blah blah blah; I appreciate the effort on the story for Uber Racer 3D - Sandstorm by Mad Processor, but when an arcade racer is this rock solid all I need to know is where the accelerator is and why I'm not already flipping cars in to a ravine.

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

If our government were truly interested in reducing oil consumption and CO2, why is it that the Bureau of Land Managment is currently behind efforts to support oil shale R&D and that it is considered a resource that can be relied upon when conventional oil reserves are depleted?

On the subject of North Sea Oil, the UK government actually see's great opportunity in the vacant reservoirs for storing CO2 from CCS which would preserve some of the 30,000 jobs currently supported by North Sea Oil and which will go down the pan soon as resources deplete.

Fossil fuel resources (coal, oil, natural gas) will deplete.

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil's carbon footprint.

Oil wells go dry and coal seams run out, but the earth's wind resources can not be depleted.

Global oil use is on the rise, even as scientists warn of depleting fossil fuel resources and an ever - growing greenhouse effect from burning these products.

Oil and gas is a unique resource in the sense that it depletes once an acreage has been drilled to within an inch of its life, and the entire infrastructure has to pack up and move on.