Sentences with phrase «state over a barrel»

«Just because the secretary has every state over a barrel doesn't mean he should be tempted to use this opportunity to become a national school board,» said Alexander.

prevent current US Secretary of Education Duncan from continuing to hold «states over a barrel,» forcing them to do what he has wanted them to do to avoid being labeled failures.

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The field, covering nearly 75 square miles, was discovered in 1911 and has produced over 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), making it one of the most productive fields in the United States.

«Because of the rapidly growing levels of oil production in the United States and the fact that we've virtually nowhere else to sell our oil than the U.S. market, Alberta is getting just over $ 50 a barrel for our oil,» Redford said.

According to the U.S. government, there are over 1.3 billion barrels of crude oil and refined products in commercial storage around the United States, an increase of more than 300 Continue Reading

The company's main brewing facility is located in Bend's Old Mill District and produces over 250,000 barrels of beer annually for distribution in 20 states and two provinces.

If Saturday was any indication, Ohio State is barreling towards the NCAA Tournament with a full head of steam following its 22 - point win over Michigan in the Big Ten semifinals.

Nigeria has also sued Chevron, Total and Agip asking for a total of $ 12.7 billion over alleged non-declaration of some 57 million barrels of crude shipped to the United States between 2011 and 2014.

This is not to say that lawmakers are happy about the state of affairs in which they find themselves — more or less over a barrel, thanks to the extender bill option Paterson pioneered.

On the one hand New York State law prohibits minors under the age of 21 from obtaining a license to own or carry handguns; on the other New York State allows anyone over the age of 16 to purchase and own rifles and other long - barreled firearms and the ammunition for them.

Baru, who took over the mantle of leadership of NNPC from Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, July 4 2016, said already NNPC had lowered operating costs of production from $ 27 / barrels to $ 22 / barrels.

This alliance creates one of the largest brewers in the Northeast and ranks within the top 15 craft brewing companies in the United States according to Brewers Association criteria with combined 2015 shipments of over 250,000 barrels.

But pork - barrel spending has crept back into the state budget in the form of capital grants doled out at the discretion of the governor and favored legislators — to the tune of $ 1.1 billion over three years, with no competitive bidding or disclosure of which politicians requested what money.

The capital bill included money for various state university campus projects, well over $ 500 million in pork barrel spending to be decided by the Legislature.

«Just 900,000 bpd [barrels per day] of growth is expected to come from OECD countries, just a fraction of the 3.7 million bpd of demand lost over the course of 2005 to 2009,» the report states.

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The field, the largest oil formation in the United States, produced over 908,000 barrels a day in November — more than double the rate just two years ago.

As Senator Alexander remarked, the Obama administration had states «over a barrel.»

As Senator Lamar Alexander said back then, Duncan had states «over a barrel.»

Many current models have the storm going directly over the City of New Orleans, but its path is still unclear as it barrels toward the United States» gulf coast.

By the time the president made the decision, oil prices were so low that the «unlikely» low oil price scenario in the State Department Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)-- where oil prices fell below $ 75 a barrel — had actually come to be and thus there was no shying away from the fact that the pipeline would cause the equivalent of over 6 million passengers cars worth of carbon pollution every year for at least 50 years.

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Production at Cantarell, the world's second - largest oil complex, in the shallow gulf waters off the shore of Mexico's southern Campeche state, averaged just over 1.8 million barrels a day in May, according to the most recent government figures.

Duke long argued that the state's PURPA rules were too favorable for clean energy, and two years ago began slowing to a trickle connections of large solar arrays to its grid, leaving developers over a barrel.

OPEC states that there were oil reserves of 1.1 trillion barrels in 2006, of which they control over three quarters.

The simplest way of calculating the emissions attributable to the KXL pipeline is to take the amount of product, let's say 830,000 barrels per day (the stated capacity of the pipeline), and multiply it by the carbon content of bitumen (0.48 tonnes of CO2 per barrel), which gives emissions of about 7 billion tonnes of CO2 over 50 years.

They then note that the approximately «27 % of the HECO Companies» renewable portfolio mix» in 2014 prevented the use of «millions of barrels of oil, curbed Hawai'i's greenhouse gas emissions, and reduced the over four billion dollars sent out - of - state each year.»