Major oil exporters could then seek to use their now less valuable oil at home as cheap fuel for an expanded heavy industrial sector.

High oil prices fuel public discussion about the future of oil prices.

This portion of crude oil is often referred to as heavy gas oil or vacuum gas oil (HVGO).

But this assumes that the oil sheikhs will extract less oil because there is more bio fuel.

There is a fossil carbon continuum ranging from easy, conventional oil, to deep and ultra deep offshore oil, to extra heavy crude oil.

The power station is fueled by natural gas and by fuel oil.

But oil prices do not reflect the true costs of fossil fuel consumption.

For example, now is the time to begin reducing US oil demand through improved fuel economy standards and or progressive increases in fuel taxes.

The subsequent investigation found that the cause was ice released from the fuel system which accumulated on the fuel oil heat exchanger leading to a restriction of fuel flow to the engines.

America s ill conceived war in Iraq helped fuel a quadrupling of oil prices since 2003.

The high food and fuel prices that prevailed until recently have taken a heavy toll on the finances of many African economies.

Besides the largest conventional oil reserves and the second largest natural gas reserves in the Western Hemisphere, Venezuela has non conventional oil deposits (extra heavy crude oil, bitumen and tar sands) approximately equal to the world's reserves of conventional oil.

Pitcairn exports fruits, vegetables and handicrafts and imports fuel oil, machinery, building materials, cereals, milk, flour and other foodstuffs.

In the case of the US, heavy dependence on imported oil has worsened the trade deficit and further weakened the dollar.

Unfortunately, biodiesel from soy is little better on this count and California heavy oil and farm ethanol are both far worse.

It carries a particularly heavy traffic of petroleum and petroleum products from the oil fields of the Persian Gulf and Indonesia.

Its main sources of income are oil, industrial exports, manufactured goods, electronics, heavy industry, automobiles, construction, food, banking and financial services.

World leaders signed the Agreed Framework with North Korea in 1994 (I was engaged in the process as Australia s foreign minister), but we dragged our feet in building the nuclear reactors and delivering the heavy fuel oil promised, partly owing to a widespread belief that the regime s collapse was imminent.

Oil pressed from rapeseed can be used as diesel fuel, and maize or sugar beets can yield ethanol to replace gasoline.

And clearly, with what's going on with fossil fuel usage, or when as the fossil fuel is going away, as oil hits its peak oil, you know, we really have to start thinking about whether or not we should, or could, be moving food 1,500 miles before we eat it.

Unlike its Persian Gulf neighbours, Bahrain has little oil wealth and the economy has expanded into banking, heavy industries, retail and tourism.

The investment will lead to a rapid deployment of emergency power using heavy fuel power generation, and will involve the rehabilitation and management of transmission and distribution.

With mounting concerns about climate change and volatility in oil and other fossil fuel prices, renewables are finally becoming a viable proposition.

Moreover, fossil fuel costs fluctuate wildly with oil prices, and the centralized nature of nuclear and coal fired power stations creates distribution problems.

Resources and consumables the possibility of monitoring resources using electricity, water and fuel oil consumption is being considered as an aid to verification.

Additional requirements resulted mainly from the unbudgeted procurement of 12 heavy trucks and 16 fuel tankers due to the fact that there were fewer contingent owned equipment transport assets than planned and the scope of the turnkey fuel contract was more limited than planned.

In that case, the price of oil could shoot up to 150 a barrel or more, dealing a heavy blow to the global economy.

The company had plans to carry 800,000 tonnes of fuel oil over the canal during 2003, and to increase the volume to in 2004.

Iran says its naval security forces have confiscated ten oil tankers smuggling 4,600 tons of Iranian fuel out of the Persian Gulf in 2008.

Of course, these efforts will almost surely fail to replace oil within a reasonable time, as they are not market driven and require heavy subsidies.

According to Saudi Arabia, heavy soot from the oil well fires was deposited over an area of approximately 7,227 square kilometres of its desert areas.

In contrast, real oil prices were flat leading up to 1929, and down nearly 50 in real terms from the 1925 6 fuel folly peaks.

The primary demand for oil is as a transport fuel, with lesser amounts used for heating, energy, and as inputs for petrochemical industries like plastics.

Indeed, more than 80 of modern societies consumption of energy generated by oil, either in the form of electricity or fuel, is used to move commuters.

Looking forward, in the short run, speculators will continue to fuel oil price volatility as bullish and bearish factors steer them one way or the other.

First, a naval blockade (reminiscent of the Cuban missile crisis) that halted both Iran s oil exports and imports of refined fuel would cripple the country s economy.

Oil price rises from 2003 have been linked to a decline in per capita fuel use for private vehicle travel in the USA, Britain and Australia.

Since the mid 1970s oil crisis, the amount of fuel consumed by larger and larger vessels has been rapidly outpacing the growth in the actual catch.

The high food and fuel prices that prevailed until recently have taken a heavy toll on the finances of many African economies. Now they face a second blow from the global recession.

Whereas oil speculators have gained, both the US and global economies have suffered and been pushed closer to recession. In the case of the US, heavy dependence on imported oil has worsened the trade deficit and further weakened the dollar.

When the North Koreans failed to take such steps, primarily in the form of refusing to agree to a verification regime, its interlocutors stopped providing fuel oil.

Oil provides the main fuel for transportation worldwide. Coal and gas are burned in huge and growing amounts to produce electricity and to provide energy for industry.

Just last week, a Ukrainian freighter carrying heavy weaponry, including tanks, was hijacked. A Greek petrochemical carrier was seized, and another attacked, as was an Iranian oil tanker.

Secondly, as all our colleagues have said in this discussion, high oil prices are a heavy burden on the poorest developing and oil importing countries in particular and have resulted in a loss of 2.7 per cent of their gross domestic product.

CA No, no. The argument that it's a bridge fuel makes sense, because the amount of CO2 per unit of energy is lower than oil and coal, correct?