Sentence examples for oil pushing from inspiring English sources

Artificially cheap prices, they said, encouraged households and firms to guzzle more oil, pushing global prices higher.

But if domestic prices are capped, then emerging economies will continue to guzzle oil, pushing world prices still higher.

With oil pushing $120 a barrel, the diesel's fuel-sipping charms it delivers about 30% more miles per gallon (MPG) than regular petrol have created a shortage of diesel fuel around the world.Soaring prices followed the shortage.

Poor canola harvests in Europe and dietary changes in several countries produced a world shortage of vegetable oil, pushing up the price of soybeans, which are crushed for their oil.

Those refineries, in turn, use up a lot more oil, pushing up its price too.Oil markets will not escape this cycle, Miss Schels believes, until more refineries and storage tanks are built, and more fields developed a process that can take years.

When asked if new reservations were down at her Key West hotel, Carol Wightman, owner of the Marquesa, laughed and said, "Have you heard the phone ringing?" There is disagreement among scientists, government and industry experts about the potential risk of oil pushing onto Florida's coastline.

Rising demand for heating oil pushed oil stocks higher.

The high price of oil pushed the balance beyond that mark in December, much sooner than expected.

Oil pushed up the value of the pound, possibly contributing to the hollowing out of British manufacturing.

Sidanco, which is 10percentt owned by BP Amoco, lost its subsidiary last year when Tyumen Oil pushed it into bankruptcy.

Ali al-Naimi, the oil minister of Saudi Arabia, said the cartel was prepared to rein in supply again if the return of Iraqi oil pushed prices too low.