"She comes off like a real oil patch kind of Alaskan," Mr. Doogan said.
Fry in oil, any kind will do, our host assures us.
That's a bad reason because it won't, and it's a bad reason because "reduce dependence on foreign oil" is kind of a silly idea.
They need breakthrough technologies that can compete on a grand scale with coal and oil — the kind China is now pursuing and a major research program in this country could, too.
Tung oil, a kind of natural plant oil, has recently received increasing attention due to its high value of research and application.
The sound is completely distinct from other whale calls, says Gedamke, who describes it as mechanical, "like beating on an oil drum," kind of a "bub-bub-BOING!" The sound is complex and regularly repeated, like a song.
In the digital world data is the new oil, a kind of currency.
WHO classifies highly refined mineral oil, the kind used in cosmetics, as group 3 in their list of carcinogens--meaning there isn't enough evidence to consider them entirely safe or unsafe.
Hansen, who has been arrested at a protest against Keystone, called tar sands oil, the kind that would flow through the pipeline, "the dirtiest fuel on earth" and argued that Keystone would drive further development of Alberta's tar sands.
IN the push to free the auto industry from its dependence on oil, all kinds of alternatives are being tried.
Mr. Gore's proposals boil down to a philosophy that says that if the federal government wants Americans to live and travel in a fashion less dependent on oil and kinder to the environment, it should make it worth their while.
