Speaking of cards, this spot also lets you take the Start - Up action which you do by selecting one of three face - up Start - Up cards which represent the various technologies and paying an amount
of barrels of oil equal to the barrels sitting on the corresponding technology slot.
Not exact matches
Any given
barrel of oil is
of more or less
equal quality and desirability as any other
barrel of oil, the supply is (barring disaster) predictable and constant, and since
oil is nonperishable, it doesn't matter if it comes from Alberta or Chile or a geyser on the moon: it still attracts the same price.
That large movement — releasing energy
equal to 9.1 million gigajoules, or roughly the amount
of energy contained in 1.5 billion
barrels of oil — explains the massive tsunami that devastated the northeastern Japanese coast.»
Raising $ 2 billion over ten years — or a modest $ 200 million annually — would thus require increasing royalties by just 15.8 cents per
barrel of oil and 2.7 cents per million British thermal units (MMBtus)
of natural gas (assuming the necessary revenues were spread across
oil and gas on an
equal energy - content basis).
There are 42 gallons
of crude
oil in a
barrel so 11 million gallons would
equal about 261,904
barrels.
That is
equal to the amount
of fuel from one large ethanol plant and tiny fraction
of U.S.
oil demand
of about 20 million
barrels per day.
This — combined with the energy used to refrigerate and haul the bottled water in trucks, sometimes over hundreds
of miles — means the U.S. bottled water industry consumes roughly 50 million
barrels of oil per year,
equal to 13 percent
of U.S.
oil imports from Saudi Arabia.
Given that 60 million
barrels of oil equals 17 hours
of world energy consumption, it's a pretty ridiculous effort to do anything, from affecting prices in a meaningful way to affecting the trenchant recession to impacting the political scene.
In California alone, off - road vehicles spew out more than 230,000 metric tons
of carbon dioxide each year,
equal to the emissions created by burning about 500,000
barrels of oil.
They use the equivalent
of 1.3 million
barrels of oil per day, which is
equal to roughly half the
oil production
of Kuwait.
The energy used each year by an average family (four people) with an electric water heater is roughly
equal to the energy used by a medium - sized automobile driven 12,000 miles a year at an average fuel efficiency
of 22 miles per gallon (about 11
barrels of oil).
Alberta Tar Sands Not all
barrels of oil are created
equal.