If our transaction was as fleeting as volatile oil, it was also boundless, and replicable.
The fuel economy and biofuel boosts are designed to weaken the country's exposure to volatile oil prices.
It has a dry gas, wet gas, volatile oil and black oil phases.
And government revenues remain dependent on volatile oil prices (oil income accounted for a third of the country's total income last year).
Michael Moore goes on to say that the volatile oil price in recent years has meant revenue has fluctuated between 1.3% of tax revenue, and 2.4%.
Observers say the US finds it hard to criticise a country which is seen as an ally in a volatile, oil-rich region.
The volatile but oil-rich Eastern Province, home to many of the Sunni kingdom's sizeable Shia minority, has witnessed frequent bouts of violent unrest in the past year.
Commodities are by nature volatile, and oil has proven it can play the game.
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The company sees a big market in particular for paints, in which chemical chains of sugar and oil would replace the volatile ketones and oxygenated solvents that vaporize from both oil-based and latex paint.
Trading has become highly volatile in the crude oil market the past two days.
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The Westminster government argued the "extremely volatile" nature of oil prices meant they were far better managed in a UK-wide context.
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In Q2 we saw this trend continue as oil prices remained volatile.
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"In public, the SNP desperately insist the boom years are ahead, but in private we know they are deeply concerned that oil revenues are volatile, unpredictable and falling, " he said.
Big western producers have responded by looking for oil in more volatile parts of the world, including the Caspian region and West Africa, and geologically tricky places like the deep waters off Brazil.
Against that, Unionist politicians pose two arguments: that oil revenues are volatile and that the broader tax base of the UK permits greater resilience against short-term shocks such as sharp increases in unemployment and, therefore, benefits.
This strained logic will only delay development of a coherent energy policy, so oil prices will remain volatile.
It says oil taxation is too volatile to devolve and wants welfare to remain handled by the UK as a whole.
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And they have to accept that oil prices are very volatile and they have a lot more to do with what OPEC does than what Ben Bernanke does.
The first is in the push for increased use of nuclear power in preference to other fuels, especially oil, which is volatile in price and entails many political ramifications.
Sources of foreign oil are unreliable, as is the price: with every international crisis, especially in the volatile Middle East, the cost of a barrel of oil soars.
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Oil markets are in themselves volatile, it seems like risk, this time, comes from all around.
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Commodities like oil and bonds are especially volatile today.
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont insisted Mr Swinney was in denial over civil servant advice about the dangers of basing the plans on a "volatile and diminishing commodity like North Sea oil".
It also wants the UK to be more self-sufficient for its energy, so it doesn't have to rely on other countries to supply our power and is less dependent on volatile and increasingly expensive global gas and oil prices.
" A report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Sudan last October reinforces these assessments, "The oil issue and the extremely volatile situation prevailing in western Upper Nile are clearly at the core of the armed conflict in the Sudan and have particularly dire consequences for peace.
While no one can accurately predict how protracted the conflict in Libya will play out, how powerful will other uprisings be, and at what point and in what way this will spread, investors can be sure that the price of oil will be on a volatile path in the months to come.
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Russia is diversifying too slowly away from oil and other natural resources with volatile prices.
We're in a much more volatile and dangerous world when it comes to oil and we don't have a safety net.
Kevin Daly of Goldman Sachs thinks there are modest grounds for optimism: the sectors that shrank most this time, such as oil and gas, are notoriously volatile, whereas those that grew, such as services, may be seeing sustainable improvement.
The preceding paragraph captures the double game we confront from a kingdom that, on the one hand, is routinely characterized by American officials as a reliable U.S. ally in the volatile Middle East, a crucial source of oil and a trustworthy recipient of sophisticated weaponry.
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