Petroleum in example sentence

As the director of the State Council’s Development Research Center, Li Wei, pointed out in February, at the current rate, China will be consuming 800 million tons of oil annually, and importing 75% of its petroleum, by 2030.

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We make this epinephrine in a factory by stitching together smaller molecules that come mostly from petroleum.

So nature's molecules are everywhere, including the ones that have decomposed into these black mixtures that we call petroleum.

Coal and natural gas are cheaper than solar and wind, and petroleum is cheaper than biofuels.

OK, if you put steam into coal fields or petroleum fields that have been running for decades, you can get a really substantial increase, like an eight-fold increase, in your output.

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