Sentences with phrase «war over oil»

With many pipelines built and we still war over oil and are enslaved to the point of destroying the planet.

We're already at war over oil, a dwindling resource, instead of spending time looking for other renewable energy sources.

He was convinced early on that solar and wind power presented an alternative — not just to fossil fuels and nuclear power, but to wars over oil and to the potential for nuclear conflict.

I also believe that Renewable Energy and Sustainable Building practices are key to reducing «Wars over Oil».

Not exact matches

However, the current deal between allied major oil producers could soon be at risk amid heightened tensions over an escalating proxy war between two of OPEC's top three crude producers, Shah said.

To be fair, there have been a several times that markets didn't recover as quickly after seismic geopolitical events such as the invasion of France in 1940 and the Yom Kippur War (which led to a complete realignment of control over global oil), according to the Credit Suisse team led by Keating.

The Federal Reserve did not help in the process as their response to increasing oil prices and the war in the Middle East was to RAISE the short term Fed Funds rate from 5.50 to over 10 percent.

The U.S. dollar clung to gains amid fading concerns over a global trade war, while oil soared on a reported decline in U.S. crude inventories and the possibility of supply disruptions.

A number of factors have contributed, including concerns about dropping oil prices, slowing growth in China and geopolitical tensions (among them, concerns over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis and ISIS attacks).

We've been discussing the tug of war between Eastern and Western oil producers for over a year now, but today they will finally sit at the same table.

While we don't know anything about Linda Cook's political affiliations, it would be a safe bet that the Harbour Energy principal would be backing President Donald Trump in his Twitter war with the Saudi oil minister over just what the appropriate direction of oil prices should be.

The war over the price of oil is useless.

We will no longer have to go to war to protect the oil over there.

But the numbers are there and so far over 750,000 children have been killed in the middle east because of evangelical wars for Israel and oil.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

We the Amercians will never forget 9/11, and we will never forgive that is why we Suport and created Isreal and kicked out the filthy Arabs, and we went into Iraq to get rid of Saddam, so what if hundereds of thousands have been murdered, raped and tourchered at least we now have total control over the oil fields, i know Afganistan had nothing to do with 9/11 but since no super power had ever invaded and captured Afganistan we will very soon do that, we soport India who are also doing a graet job in Kashmir so what if 110,000 kasmiries have been killed it happens when there is a war, we also say thank to Serbia for kicking ass of the Muslims there, while in Russsia the chechins have been put back to stone age, So you Muslims forget what has happened to you, BUT WE WILL NEVER FORGET 9/11!!

Simultaneously the US is using the situation created by the Gulf War in 1990 to legitimise their military control over the biggest oil region in the world.

Angola gained notoriety just over a decade ago as an oil - rich country run by an oligarchy lording over an impoverished, war - weary population.

Over the weekend, Rangel blasted President Obama for his commitment to the war in Iraq, arguing that his motivation for U.S. involvement in the war matched that of the previous administration - to secure more oil for the United States.

The comments Powell was recalling there came back in June, when Rangel blasted Obama over the ongoing Iraq War, saying: «I challenge anyone to tell me we aren't there because of the oil.

There are striking parallels between Buhari's first stint in power as military dictator and his current democratic presidency - oil prices have crashed; appointments have favoured the North; important political allies have been displaced; governance is focused almost exclusively on a war against corruption; concerns over rule of law and human rights are re-surfacing; and economic policy is floundering!

In 2003, his book «The Party's Over: Oil, War & the Fate of Industrial Societies» turned Peak Oil from an insider worry to a popular movement.

Over this period, the U.S. experienced the Great Depression, two world wars, the Cold War, massive corporate tax hikes, oil crises, stagflation, corrupt and incompetent leaders, the 9/11 attacks, countless scandals in leading corporations, the financial crisis and so on.

«If it had a script the only line would be: Illustrate the obvious ties between the car industry and wars fought over oil,» Meckseper told Interview magazine.

BRACHA: Pietà — Eurydice — Medusa is the first comprehensive solo museum exhibition of Bracha's work in the United States, featuring a range of works spanning the last four decades — oil paintings, often created over several years, earlier and more recent drawings, notebooks, and three video works — that address the themes of loss, love and trauma within the context of the atrocities of war and traces of memory of the tragedy of the Holocaust.

These GOP Neoliberal Thugs had no problems when the Bush / Cheney Oil / Gas Neocon Network took the nation to war in the ME using false claims, lies and propaganda while abandoning the Right of the EPA to have jurisdiction over the environmental impacts of Fracking across the nation.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

BTW, if oil is a national security issue, and we went to war in the Middle East over this, why then do we allow an oil company to profit on this, when it should be controlled by the government?

Over the past year, the percentage of Americans blaming the oil companies for skyrocketing gas prices fell from 34 % to 20 %; the percentage pointing to oil refinery problems fell from 16 % to 9 %; and those attributing the increase in prices to problems in the Middle East and the Iraq war fell from 13 % to 8 %.

As he began to see wars over resources, primarily oil, tear apart different regions of the world he sought out a masters degree studying climate change and militarism at The Evergreen State College.

Oil and gas are too geographically concentrated, which leads to despotic «rentier» governments in the oil - and - gas producing lands, as well as wars fought over the resourcOil and gas are too geographically concentrated, which leads to despotic «rentier» governments in the oil - and - gas producing lands, as well as wars fought over the resourcoil - and - gas producing lands, as well as wars fought over the resources.

Contrary to the widespread view of oil's continued dominance, it has been losing market share over the last 40 years — including the last 13 years in a row — and stands at its lowest market share in the US since at least World War II.

Only a week after Paris COP 2, while you were distracted by the hysteria over wars with fanatics in a desert far, far away (the real ones for oil, the imagined for merchandising), Congress lifted the oil export ban (see KMP posts on the ban).

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As for a major war being fought over oil, I suggest you study the events that led to the United States entering WW II.

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

It is often said that future wars will more likely be fought over water than oil, but in reality the competition for water is taking place in world grain markets.

It is often said that future wars in the Middle East will more likely be fought over water than oil, but in reality the competition for water is taking place in world grain markets.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressWar II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressWar II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppresswar production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressWar II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppresswar effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

It is no surprise that wars are waged over holy places like Jerusalem, historical places like Kosovo and oil rich places like Kuwait.