Then there is pipeline policy needed to get feedstock to refineries to manufacture into oil products for consumers.

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He had lately, however, retired, and had gone to London, where he has since resided, in Suffolk street, Pall-mall East, and gained some notoriety by the manufacture of an improved oil for artists.

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Diversa has used this technique to develop a valuable enzyme used for cleaning oil wells, and Maxygen has developed enzymes used in industrial production and for the manufacture of other drugs.

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If it is true that we may expect a decline in the availability of cheap crude oil, and hence diesel and petrol fuels, upon which essentially all world transportation, manufacture and the production and transportation of food, and thus global growth depend, the news on the CO2 emission front must be good.

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Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.

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Though all technological advances are something to embrace, for individuals to be exuberant about fracking amid a world awash in oil is the equivalent of Americans dancing in the streets over new techniques discovered for the easy manufacture of t-shirts.

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Though oil is still king in this country, nearly every major auto company is making a push to develop and manufacture electric cars.

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