Sentence examples for total oil use from inspiring English sources

The E.P.A. says that the vehicles covered by these rules account for about 40 percent of total oil use in the United States.

But while China is a negligible market for the true behemoths that remain fairly popular in the United States, like the Chevrolet Tahoe and the Lincoln Navigator, the upward creep in vehicle size in China toward midsize cars and S.U.V.'s is complicating policy makers' efforts to limit total oil use.

Gasoline accounts for about half of the total oil used in the United States, which consumes one in four barrels of oil produced worldwide each day.

In the last two years, Mexico provided about 12 percent of all crude oil imports to the United States, supplying about 8 percent of the total oil used by American refineries, according to the Energy Department.

(Currently, total global oil use is eighty-six million barrels a day).

A study by the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) predicts peak oil, the maximum level of extraction and the moment when approximately half of the total oil reserves are used, to be reached between 2006 and 2026 [21].

To evaluate whether the identified components may be useful in reflecting chemotaxonomic and biological activities relationships, 25 compounds detected in the oil samples at an average concentration greater than 0.9% of the total oil were selected and used for this purpose.

The extraction of the total oil content is carried out using hexane in a Soxhlet extractor for 4 h from the dryer used for the determination of humidity content material [15].

The problem is to maximize the total oil produced from six wells using gas lift.

For example, in the USA today, 70% of the total oil consumed is directed to fuels used in transportation - gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel [4].

P&G, partnering with Cook Composites & Polymers, a Kansas City subsidiary of Total Oil, thinks Sefose could eventually be used in a sixth of the 1.3 billion gallons of paint purchased in the U.S. each year, displacing as many organic volatiles as if all the cars in Florida vanished.