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.

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

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.

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

The rhetoric of energy independence in the oil consuming countries makes the situation even worse the oil producing countries are building energy intensive industries to guarantee a market for their oil once consuming nations wean themselves of imported oil.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Assuming the foreign oil assets are priced fairly at the time of purchase, the country benefits only when the purchase helps smooth its income however, purchases may increase income volatility even for a country that relies heavily on oil.

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

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

These devaluations have done little to improve the situation of the Venezuelan people who rely on imported products or locally produced products that depend on imported inputs while dollar denominated oil sales account for the vast majority of Venezuela's exports.

Nuclear power, both fission based and fusion based, is yet another possibility for vast, reliable, secure, and environmentally safe primary energy.

When Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hinted that Iran could play the oil card, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed the idea. Let s just remember that Iran is some 80 dependent on oil in its budget, she said, so it is not really able to live with a disruption.

Importance of biodiesel in South Africa. South Africa is at present highly dependent on imported crude oil for the production of transport fuels and more specifically diesel (71 per cent of South African diesel demand is supplied from crude oil).

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Sharp stones are under him he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

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

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The bread is cooked on a large, black, clay plate over a fire.

They also depend on economic rents or Russian derivatives rather than adding value themselves Ukraine makes profits from gas transit, Belarus from oil refining.

the highest prevalence is found in the only study that relies on personal examination of patients.

Its alphabet was based on the Etruscan alphabet, which was in turn based on the Greek alphabet.

Nor can Musharraf count on the military, despite his recent appointments.

Modern economies rely not on monopolies, but on competition.

Iran also relies on the results of an air pollution modelling programme that it conducted to investigate the physical processes related to the transport, dispersion and deposition of the pollutants emitted in the atmosphere from the oil well fires.

Similarly, capitalism depends on competition, but competition can be brutal and destructive.

Finally, there are forms of malicious software that rely on the weak knowledge of average users.

But the stranglehold of North Korea s dictatorship is based on total isolation.

What is at stake are millions of jobs that depend on healthy oceans.

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But there can be no comparison to the cerebral mud wrestling that played out in Washington over Iraq.

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An important factor in this process will be the future price of oil and the extent of US dependence on oil imports.

Demographics exacerbate these conditions.

Hard power, which relies on coercion, grows out of military and economic might.

The needed properties of a digital watermark depend on the use case in which it is applied.

That reconsideration was to be based on specific information to be reported by the relevant Parties.