Sentence examples for plug oil from inspiring English sources
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the federal government needs to look at getting the technology that would allow it to work at the bottom of the sea to plug oil leaks like the Gulf of Mexico spill.
As declassified government documents reveal, an oil-denial strategy was put in place by the Truman administration in 1949, when it embarked on a policy -- without the knowledge of local governments -- to blow up oil installations and plug oil fields in the gulf states, with cooperation from Britain and American and British oil companies, if a Soviet invasion seemed imminent.
Tax-hating governor Jindall now wants to spend tens of millions of dollars of tax payer money to plug oil canals which companies are required by law to plug themselves.
Finally, there is what progressive Democrats see as a contradiction: conservative advocates of smaller and weaker government and critics of governmental power trying to pin the Death Gusher Disaster on Obama for not having and using enough government power to prevent or lessen the disaster -- even though the government has no capacity to plug oil wells.
The divers, working in the gulf, have nothing to do with plugging oil leaks -- they're engaged in jobs like dismantling unused rigs -- but just seeing the absurdly inefficient way they have to work drives home how difficult the current oil spill is.
The car vapor-locked on a 100-degree day in Nebraska, and a Volvo dealer in Wichita, Kan., where I brought the car for regular service, replaced the water pump and distributor cap, plugged oil and coolant leaks, rebuilt a fuse holder, charged me $855 and told me, "She's running like a top".
Get a wrench that fits your drain plug, an oil filter, an oil filter wrench, a bucket to catch the oil, and the oil.
We could start by allowing the Russians to help plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Soco should tell the public if it intends to pull the plug on oil exploration in Virunga or not.
BP claimed a milestone Wednesday as an operation that pumped heavy drilling mud to plug its oil well seemed to be working.
It's not just that we can't plug the oil leak, which is the perfect metaphor for what we've become.
