Petroleum in example sentence

By the decade’s end, after an Arab oil embargo and the Iranian Revolution, domestic production was in decline, Americans were importing half their petroleum needs at 15 times the price, and it was widely believed that the country was running out of natural gas.

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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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