Sentences with phrase «nonrenewable oil»

Carbon black is made of nonrenewable oil.

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Severance taxes are imposed on wells that remove nonrenewable resources, such as crude oil.

Also, if the age of oil will wind down some day (as it must, since oil is a limited, nonrenewable resource), I wouldn't be surprised by a nuclear resurgence.

For another, the more we conserve scarce and nonrenewable resources, such as the oil used so extensively in modern agriculture and elsewhere, the less pressure there will be to engage in an interventionist and imperialist foreign policy and the wars that follow from such a policy.

We have limited our calculations to this, and we have used oil as the most important form of nonrenewable energy, treating other forms in terms of their equivalence in oil.

These alternatives include liquids from both renewable (plants) and nonrenewable (coal and natural gas) sources that are better than an oil refinery on a greenhouse gas (GHG) life - cycle basis.

In the Classroom: Use poems to jump - start a discussion of earth's renewable resources — including air, plants, water, and animals — and nonrenewable resources, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.

Also, if the age of oil will wind down some day (as it must, since oil is a limited, nonrenewable resource), I wouldn't be surprised by a nuclear resurgence.

It's clear that oil is becoming increasingly expensive and that carbon based nonrenewable fuels are contributing to climate destabilization.

The short - sightedness of this solution is painfully obvious if we just reconsider that oil is a nonrenewable resource, and drilling for more will just postpone the date when we will once again have to confront our unsustainable practices.

Oil is a nonrenewable resource, and so eventually we have to realize that this resource needs to be consumed judiciously.

Outspokenly; nonrenewable energy sources; which include oil, coal, natural gas, and uranium - are the primary world's energy supplier today and will still remain the major source of world's energy for a foreseeable future.

Just like oil, natural gas is a finite, nonrenewable resource.

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According to Prentice Hall's guide to Earth's resources, nonrenewable resources «include coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power.»

Today's children can't take for granted a future powered by nonrenewable resources such as oil and natural gas.

The GPI, by contrast, counts the depletion or degradation of wetlands, forests, farmlands and nonrenewable minerals (including oil) as current cost.