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petroleum

[puh-troh-lee-uhm] / pəˈtroʊ li əm /


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The country has diversified its energy sources, including into renewables, and had built up its strategic petroleum reserve to a greater extent than others, giving it some extra cushion.

From Barron's • May 30, 2026

The country has diversified its energy sources, including into renewables, and had built up its strategic petroleum reserve to a greater extent than others, giving it some extra cushion.

From Barron's • May 30, 2026

This included a crude tanker headed to China, one to India, one tanker carrying liquified petroleum gas leaving the passage route and another one entering.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

There’s a high chance the Chinese government is injecting petroleum from a strategic supply into the market, Rory Johnston wrote in a recent Commodity Context newsletter.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The food in our organic meal had floated to us on a sea of petroleum just as surely as the corn-based meal we’d had from McDonald’s.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan




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