Sentence examples similar to equivalent of petroleum from inspiring English sources

KiOR says that its fuel will release one-sixth the amount of carbon dioxide as an equivalent amount of petroleum fuel.

Wrong because extracting tar sands oil is the petroleum equivalent of mountaintop-removal mining -- a scorched-earth, wholesale destruction of North America's boreal forest.

He worries that the rising global demand for oil will lead to the petroleum equivalent of running an engine at ever-increasing speeds without stopping to cool it down or change the oil.

In 2010, 1.4 Gt of petroleum, the equivalent to 36% of the global total, were extracted, approximately half of which occurred in two countries: Saudi Arabia (34%) and Iran (16%).

I spent that spring explaining why dumping the equivalent of 318 Olympic swimming pools of crude petroleum laced with high concentrations of methane mixed with three Olympic swimming pools of Corexit oil dispersant into the Gulf was lethal for Florida's coral reefs and all sealife.

Petroleum output dropped 1.7percentt, however, to the equivalent of 2.6 million barrels of crude a day.

The aviation industry's suggestion that biofuels will rescue it from the rising costs of petroleum and the carbon-emissions problem was equivalent to greenwashing, he said.

Energy equivalent to 314.7 million tonnes of oil was either produced indigenously or imported in 2010, of which around half was in the form of petroleum.

Exports consist almost entirely of petroleum and petroleum products.

The cost of petroleum imports increased 4.1 percent.

"The smell of petroleum was so strong".