Word: petroleum
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...passed, Question 4--known as the Polluter Pay Initiative--would place a tax of one fifth of a cent per pound on the production and import of toxic chemicals and industrial petroleum products in Massachusetts...
...because the manufacture of 21st century products will use fewer and fewer of & them. Even the need for oil, now the most vital of interests in the West, will fall from the strategic agenda as it is replaced by solar power and controlled nuclear fusion. The end of the petroleum age will make the Arab states of the Middle East poorer and less stable but of declining interest to the West. The Islamic world, powerfully resistant to modernization, will tend to isolate itself...
...policies that work at cross-purposes with those goals and with one another. Environmentalists argue -- correctly -- that recycled materials suffer in the marketplace against virgin materials because of government subsidies. Newsprint producers, for instance, are indirectly subsidized through public-area logging and logging access roads. The depletion allowance for petroleum subsidizes producers of oil-based plastics. "If these costs are taken into consideration," contends Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, "recycling looks economically a lot more competitive...
...were indeed fouled with oil, the hydrocarbons had largely degraded just four months after the war was over. Even more startling: parts of the gulf were actually cleaner after the war than before. Oysters caught off the coast of Bahrain, about halfway down the gulf, had lower levels of petroleum contamination than in the mid-1980s. Offshore sediments showed the same pattern. The probable explanation: sharply reduced tanker traffic more than made up for the effects of the war-related spills...
...liked to have someone rub his head with petroleum jelly while...