Sentences with phrase «form of oil transportation»

He said the pipeline would not reduce the controversial shipment of Bakken oil by rail or barge, adding that statistics from the Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration showed that pipelines had a higher spill rate per mile than any other form of oil transportation.

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But despite the predictability of problems, the world has moved ahead, adopting forms of urbanization, agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation that increased the demand for oil.

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

The same is true for other forms of transportation fuel, whether corn ethanol for cars or algal oil to power ships.

My point is that to reduce the need for drilling for oil, we must focus our efforts on making our current primary form of transportation, the internal combustion engine, more efficient and less polluting.

Even if his reasons bear on transportation of physical, solid freight, one might argue that different considerations accrue with pipelines transporting oil and gas in liquid forms and facing particular business realities in the fact that they depend upon the laying down of massive amounts of new infrastructure in their construction.