Petroleum in example sentence

Yet, when we take a step back, and look over the span of history, at what we might call the petroleum interval, it's a short period in history where we've discovered this extraordinary material, and then based a whole way of life around it.

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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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