Sentences with phrase «dwindling oil supplies»

And the result will be ever - escalating wars for control of dwindling oil supplies, ever - escalating destruction of ecosystems, and irreversible, runaway catastrophic global warming, until the whole house of cards that constitutes the present - day «American way of life» collapses, in a very painful and ugly fashion.

Also, total electric demand will grow more rapidly as dwindling oil supplies cause a big shift toward electrically powered equipment of all kinds.

Square this with your allegation that solar and wind can't fill the gap left by dwindling oil supplies.

This appetite for energy is at last being seen as a threat, though not to the environment: the top brass understands that relying on dwindling oil supplies from unstable or hostile countries is a bad idea.

In a world of dwindling oil supplies and steadily mounting demand, there is no such thing as cheap oil.

It was driven by growing Chinese and other Far East demand and by dwindling oil supplies following the peak of conventional production in 2005.

Not exact matches

High oil prices in 2007 and 2008 were due to a large and persistent production supply deficit because of high demand from China and the Far East, and dwindling supplies following the peak of conventional oil production in 2005 (Figures 15 and 17).

With economies around the globe recovering and supplies beginning to dwindle, oil markets may become increasingly vulnerable to political unrest.

Strong demand for crude oil and the entire energy sector continues to push prices higher as I still think we will trade above the $ 70 level in the weeks ahead as global supplies have dwindled over the last year due to the fact that worldwide economies are improving which is a terrific thing to see in my opinion.

It can supplement our dwindling supplies of oil.

Biofuels could be a crucial weapon against both rising temperatures and dwindling global oil supplies.

Big changes will be necessary whatever happens, as oil and natural gas supplies dwindle, though coal is still available in huge quantities.

This is partially due to customer demand and government regulations, but it is also due to the dwindling supply of oil.

The point being that some people are debating climate change, and whether to stop using oil, when in just 100 years or maybe less, we will be forced to stop using oil anyway as supplies dwindle, and prices escalate dramatically.

In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.

They are protesting the palm oil plantations not the grounds of climate change and carbon emissions like many of us around the globe who are concerned about them, but on the very immediate grounds that the river which the Penan depend on are being polluted and with the dwindling amount of forest area, the future of their food supplies is in jeopardy.

But even then: Perhaps with improved fuel efficiency we can just keep stretching oil company profits out longer and longer as the world's finite supplies of oil start really dwindling down and prices just rise.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that disputes over territory in the oil - rich Arctic — at a time when demand for the black gold is surging and supply is dwindling — should cause military strategists to worry.

Another influence on their thinking: the knowledge that the days of affordable and plentiful oil supplies are dwindling.