Sentence examples for oil state from inspiring English sources

Oklahoma is an oil state.

Louisiana is an oil state, through and through.

No longer just an oil state, it has diversified into academia, medicine, finance and much else.

Russia, he contends, "is an oil state that has lost its way".

West Bengal is no oil state, though offshore oil and gas have just been found.

There is Colonel Qaddafi's Libya, a rich oil state that craves recognition on the world stage.

California is thought of as the most anti-oil state in the union, yet the state produces 560,000 bpd of oil, nearly as much as Alaska.

Now they are promised the riches of an oil-state.

And oil-state Democrats opposed his plans to increase oil companies' taxes.

He won support from oil-state Democrats, Republicans and the Clinton administration.

QUESTION FROM BR: How would a move away from oil to greener energy affect the war on terror if it negatively impacts oil-state economies?