Deepwater exploration is the latest holy grail of Big Oil.

CNN: The price of our oil addiction

Oil, or liquids with near-identical properties to oil, remains the Holy Grail for moving billions of people and things trillions of miles.

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And a half century of "special relationships" -- or, more precisely, addictive codependencies -- have only produced Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and, in the end, September 11, Osama bin Laden's murderous response to the permanent deployment of American troops in the oil-rich Saudi holy land.

CNN: The price of our oil addiction

They say that the oil is the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Packing their computers with everything from foam insulation to cooking oil, these quiet-crazed modders are pursuing the holy grail of a noise-free PC.

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Iran, too rich in oil to be starved out, acts as though it is engaged in an international holy war, acting out of motives more ideological than economic.

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