Petroleum in example sentence

The sudden discontinuation of the supply of petroleum and natural resources from Russia in the early 1990’s, the failure of the centrally-planned economy, and the subsequent massive famine in the mid-1990’s left North Korea’s leaders no alternative but to tolerate informal market activities.

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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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