Sentence examples for oil addicted from inspiring English sources

The rise of Isis – a movement so ruthless even their parent network al-Qaeda disowned them - is blowback from the same brand of oil addicted US-UK covert operations we have run for decades.

In the immediate future, we, the citizens of an oil addicted nation, need to step forward and urge the government to take responsibility and help make coastal communities whole again -- by holding BP accountable, conducting short and long-term monitoring, and investing in economic opportunities to support locally-driven, sustainable recovery that restores and enhances America's Gulf coast.

We oil addicts should know better, or rather we do know better but we choose to do nothing about it.

NOT long ago The Economist featured China and America on its cover as oil addicts, dopily sucking from a barrel of oil through what looked like an opium pipe.But does the black stuff, and its light-blue burning cousin natural gas, drug its producers too?

So, somehow, describing former President Bush as being an oil addict  shouldn't really be breaking news.

We are behaving like alcoholics oscillating between bouts of sobriety and weakness because that is precisely what we are: oil addicts.

The future RBS is currently funding will be further polluted, oil-addicted and incur degradation of the environment".

In an economy as oil-addicted as ours, we cannot afford to bet that oil supply will continue to meet demand and be wrong.

Germany boasts Europe's best economy, but that doesn't mean Germans exhibit wasteful winter behavior like their extravagant, oil-addicted friends across the Atlantic (not naming any names here).

This means some of the blame for the climate change we suffer now could be laid at the door of Brunel, Edison and Krupp from their coal-powered industrial revolution, as well as Ford, Rockefeller and Sheikh Yamani who created our oil-addicted age.

To many Europeans, they are sins of carbon excess (and oil-addicted America looks like a greenhouse-gas glutton, dragging the planet to perdition).In the couple of years since climate change forced its way to the top of the European Union's agenda, this hairshirt mood has kept things politically simple for policymakers.