11.   If an embargo turned global, American companies could get some oil from the petroleum reserve before that ran out.

12.   Instead, the company began pumping the tainted water back into the rock formation from which it gets the oil, called Mardin.

13.   Refineries that get the oil would have to replenish the strategic reserve at a later date, when oil prices would presumably be lower.

14.   Since the Caspian Sea is landlocked, the only way to get the oil from the region is by rail or pipeline.

15.   South Africa built plants to turn gas extracted from coal into motor fuel because world sanctions against its racist apartheid policies prevented it from getting cheap oil.

16.   The American government sees the pipeline as an important alternative to getting Caspian oil to Western markets through Russia.

17.   The calculus includes the usual factors like the cost of getting the oil out of the ground and transporting it to market.

18.   The biggest difficulty for all projects in the Caspian is the question of how to get the oil to world markets.

19.   The company is injecting heat into the ground in an effort to get oil out of the Mahogany zone shale rock formations.

20.   The danger, of course, is that people who need medication or surgery will get garlic oil instead.