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November 12, 2012

Oil Is Too Precious to be Wasted on Transportation

Kurt Cobb, OilPrice.com


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An oil executive once observed that burning oil for energy is like burning Picassos for heat. Oil is extraordinarily valuable as the basis for so many products we use every day that the thought of simply burning it ought to be unthinkable. . .

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