Sentences with phrase «wasteful use of oil»

Recklessly wasteful use of oil threatens our global environmental security.

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Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

And of course there can be good reasons for using less energy, including being less economically wasteful and curbing the environmental impacts of energy sources such as oil and coal.

The first recently unveiled global satellite survey of gas flaring — a process commonly used to dispose of natural gas freed during oil production — has shown what many have now suspected for years: it is an extremely wasteful, costly problem that has helped contribute to global warming.