An EU official said the new mandate would allow warships or helicopters to fire at fuel barrels, boats, trucks or other equipment on beaches, according to Agence France-Presse.
Last year the upswing between March and July was some 750, 000 barrels of fuel a day, according to Barclays Capital.
But two parachutes did not fully open, and pallets stacked with barrels of fuel slammed into the ground, lost or badly damaged "burned in, " as crews say.
By 2050, it will have nearly 700 million, or almost three times the number of registered vehicles currently in the U.S. If China's vehicle fleet grows to these anticipated sizes with today's fuel efficiency and emissions standards, China will need roughly 20 million barrels of oil per day to fuel its transportation sector, which in turn will emit about 3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide every year.
The federal government estimates that there's more than 1 trillion barrels of burnable fuel in the oil shale of the Rocky Mountains.
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In June, diesel exports reached a record high of nearly 20 million barrels, or more than 20% of the average U.S. monthly diesel fuel consumption--97.6 million barrels per month in 2006.
One trillion barrels of oil would fuel the entire world for nearly 35 years.
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Before the explosion, the rig carried 2.6m litres of diesel fuel and was pumping 8, 000 barrels (1.27m litres) of crude oil a day - a volume which may still be leaking from the well into the Gulf of Mexico.
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B, if we could achieve some of these important policy objectives through executive action as the President did with close to a dozen automobile manufacturers in putting in place fuel efficiency standards that will save 12 billion barrels of oil, we would.
In 1996 the United States used the equivalent of 4.6m barrels a day of non-fossil fuel.
Refined product sales were down 58, 000 barrels a day in the fourth quarter, at 1.3 million barrels, due to lower gasoline and jet fuel sales.
These, plus a collection of smaller (and iffier) drilling prospects, are attached to fossil fuel reservoirs that may harbor the equivalent of 60 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
Lockheed Martin executives want to scale the technology up to 100 megawatts in subsequent ventures, producing the same amount of electricity in a year that 1.3 million barrels of oil could while generating virtually no fuel costs or greenhouse gases.
Similarly, today, if Libya and Algeria were to halt operations, OPEC spare capacity will also likely be drawn down to 2.1 million barrels per day, in our view, which could fuel higher oil prices.
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The residual fuel oil market in the U.S. has fallen from 3.5 million barrels a day in 1979 to just 700, 000 barrels a day, for example, as oil- fueled generators have dwindled.
It blocked an amendment that would have required the president to find ways to cut oil use by one million barrels a day by 2015 - on the grounds that it might have required imposing better fuel economy on our carmakers.
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Think about it: We established new fuel economy standards, a historic accomplishment that is going to slash oil consumption by about 12 billion barrels, dramatically reduces pollution that contributes to climate change, and saves consumers thousands of dollars at the pump, which they can then go spend on something else.
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Ocean, with estimated reserves equivalent to 598 million barrels of oil to Devon's 1.6 billion, was counting on the deepwater projects to fuel its growth in the coming years.
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