oil

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The blockade has already kept about half a billion barrels of oil from the market and pushed up prices by around 40%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Randy remembers selling Chryslers in the 1970s when the brand was in the midst of its first modern existential threat: the oil crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Since 27 January, no crude oil from Russia has reached Hungary via Ukraine through the Druzhba pipeline, which translates as the "Friendship pipeline".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Most of those oil tankers -- 30 of them -- came from Iran or sailed under the Iranian flag.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Also some Eskimo ice cream, which you make by taking reindeer tallow and a little seal oil and heating them hard, adding water and oil until everything is fluffy.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell