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  • Call it mercantilism, call it the betrayal of the market, but the historical reality is this: Start-up incentives including the Interstate highway system, to mention just one trillion-dollar gift to oil are what brought on petroleum's pre-eminence.

    Jed Horne: Senator Vitter Discovers Adam Smith Jed Horne 2011

  • Call it mercantilism, call it the betrayal of the market, but the historical reality is this: Start-up incentives including the Interstate highway system, to mention just one trillion-dollar gift to oil are what brought on petroleum's pre-eminence.

    Jed Horne: Senator Vitter Discovers Adam Smith Jed Horne 2011

  • Call it mercantilism, call it the betrayal of the market, but the historical reality is this: Start-up incentives including the Interstate highway system, to mention just one trillion-dollar gift to oil are what brought on petroleum's pre-eminence.

    Jed Horne: Senator Vitter Discovers Adam Smith Jed Horne 2011

  • It's no wonder then that even when we're confronted with the hard fact that petroleum's true price is higher than the one we pay at the pump, we aren't willing to come to terms with it.

    Clean Energy: Jet Skiing Through Tar Balls 2010

  • It's no wonder then that even when we're confronted with the hard fact that petroleum's true price is higher than the one we pay at the pump, we aren't willing to come to terms with it.

    Clean Energy: Jet Skiing Through Tar Balls 2010

  • He also noted distilled petroleum's potential use as a lubricant, found it capable of withstanding extremely high and low temperatures, and of keeping its form after long use.

    Silliman, Benjamin 2009

  • Rising ethanol production, meanwhile, backed by Washington, will erode petroleum's market share.

    Refining Heads Back to the Dark Ages 2008

  • Grabbing some of petroleum's more than 90% share of the U.S. vehicle fuels market is a smart strategy for the gas industry.

    Fueling Up With Natural Gas 2008

  • How about we redirect our resources and young men and women out of destroying the Middle East and channel them toward poising the U.S. economy to be the dominant force behind the hydrogen revolution that will end petroleum's reign of terror forever?

    Jeff Dorchen: Really? Tax Cuts Again? Can't You... I Mean, Tax Cuts? Again? 2008

  • Exxon-Mobil is on record as the petroleum's industry's number one denier of global warming.

    Bush Prefers Masters' Voice to Iraq Study Group 2007

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