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Nevermind that more petro is used to create less energy that is then pumped into the diesel.

Sound Politics: It's in the P-I 2007

It's a fact of life that oil tends to come from unstable places - the very term petro state is shorthand for a country with "weak institutions and a malfunctioning public sector," and an economy based around imports, not exports, due to exchange rates.

Energy Bulletin - Matthew Wild 2010

At the urging of Rense, he called his petro contact back and asked what he could tell people, and the guy actually gave away the game plan in a rough outline.

Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

Under a program sometimes dubbed petro-diplomacy, Citgo, Venezuela's wholly-owned gas and oil subsidiary, has been providing discounts of up to 60 per cent on heating oil to poor communities in the U.S.

OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS 2006

Are the oil release estimates reported just oil by volume or the combined oil/methane volume, which would be a kind of petro-mousse?

WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook 2010

Typically led by the "commodity Dollars" of Canada and Australia, Norway's "petro" Krone, plus the higher-yielding New Zealand Dollar, these "other" currencies accounted for 3.7% of central-bank reserves worldwide by April, Nomura thinks, up from 1.5% a decade ago. has gone from 12.2% of central-bank reserves by value in early 2000 to 10.0% in Q1 2010, according to World Gold Council research.

FXstreet.com 2010

We need to find some kind of petro dollars that our Chiaa and Sunna brothers/sisters enjoy so much and makes them 3antar on with their Downtown and ...

The Ouwet Front: A Lebanese Forces Blog 2009

- within a suitable legal framework - a "petro" unit redeemable in a constant amount of energy value, let's say the energy released by burning 100ml (measured at 20 Centigrade) of n-octane.

Asia Times Online 2009

So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state.

Canada’s image lies in tatters « Anglican Samizdat 2009

Whatever influence Saudi Arabia has, it has been bought with petro dollars.

Muqtedar Khan: Change in Egypt Will Change the Region Muqtedar Khan 2011