All of the alternatives to oil depend on oil powered machinery, or require materials such as plastics that are produced from oil.

Before the invention of coins, commerce depended on precious metals.

The country relies on Russia for various imports, including petroleum.

And they have big cities, and the cities are all dependent on oil.

Both the petrol and the mineral oil tax contain a CO2 element.

Before we used to just budget on whatever oil we bring in, because oil is the biggest, most revenue earning sector in the economy 70 percent of our revenues come from oil.

(c) Public receipts, which are largely derived from oil exports, amount to LD 3,348.1 million

Few countries are as dependent on the Persian Gulf region s hydrocarbons as is India, which imports almost 80 of its consumption.

Such a knowledge base for mineral resources is generated from geoscientific surveys that build upon the knowledge generated by scientific research.

The development of deep seabed mineral resources is also of considerable importance to Japan, which depends on the import from overseas of the minerals derived from polymetallic nodules.

Rising oil prices are due to the sharp increase in demand by the major consumers, which have not adopted effective policies to reduce their dependency on hydrocarbons.

Capacity Building in Planning, Negotiating and Management for Exploitation of Oil and Mineral Resources in Mauritania.

Western Europe and Japan, both of which are almost entirely dependent on external supplies of oil and gas, have done somewhat better.

We use the notion of color.

Political scientists tell us that rentier economies, or economies that depend on oil and foreign aid, stimulate greed and grievances.

Moreover, Iraq's possession of oil is a mixed blessing, because few oil based economies have proven hospitable to liberal democracy.

To make matters worse, the eurozone depends on oil imports even more than the United States does, and oil prices are rising, even as the political and policy environment is deteriorating.

It is rich in mineral resources, natural mineral resources.

But Russia remains essentially a rentier state that is, a state whose primary source of revenue is rent in this case, oil and gas rather than taxation, which thus keeps demands for political representation at bay.

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, and Chávez s economic strategy depended on harnessing that wealth in order to address his country s social problems.

Thirty years ago, Indonesia and Nigeria both dependent on oil had comparable per capita incomes.

Iran also relies on the results of a study on the transport of pollutants from the oil well fires, using satellite imagery and black rain measurements.

China and India, the two largest countries in the world, realize that their high rates of economic growth also depend upon foreign oil.

C. Permanent sovereignty over mineral and water

(14) Increase of the mineral oil tax

We are a small country and it may suit the major oil companies to source their supplies from South America and even build bases there.

The barrel of oil equivalent (BOE) is a unit of energy based on the approximate energy released by burning one barrel (42 U.S. gallons or 158.9873 litres) of crude oil.

Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them.

Dolphins and toothed whales use echolocation.

C. Permanent sovereignty over mineral and water resources

3. Permanent sovereignty over mineral and water resources.

Moreover, its democracy has matured, and its economy is advancing toward modernity, driven by an economic bonanza of mineral resources, mainly oil, coal, and gold.

The rest of the military got dragged down into the muck across the 1990s and they developed this very derisive term to describe it military operations other than war.

The lack of resources affected those outputs that rely on mixed funding.

But let's focus first on the light dependent reactions.

Or perhaps the dividing line should be between propositions that depend on reasonable behavioral assumptions and those that depend on ludicrous ones.

Partly money, partly background and partly J. Lampton's instinct.

Russia s government remains dependent on oil and gas exports for revenue, but the prices of these commodities are falling sharply.

But how can we protect the reefs and the animals and plants who rely on them?

Finally, the Francophone approach relies on two types of monopoly.

After consideration, the Committee adopts the recommendations to be submitted to the Security Council.

There are now dozens of companies that depend upon lobbying for their very existence.

Your credit card account was changed from being inheritance to part of the estate contribution.

Our experience of the world depends on the actual structure of the networks in which we're residing and on all the kinds of things that ripple and flow through the network.

This is a complete reversal of his usual watchandwait strategy.