1.   As oil reserves are depleted, its price will continue to rise.

2.   But as oil reserves dwindled over the past Decade, local school property taxes doubled to help make up the difference.

3.   Loans provided are generally secured by proven oil reserves or guarantees received from any major oil corporation partner in the venture.

4.   Many other countries of the world that are deficient in oil reserves have coal and natural gas.

5.   Two-thirds of the worlds oil reserves still sleep quietly beneath the soil of Mecca.

6.   The HYDRO-CONGO state oil company would nevertheless continue to exploit oil reserves, occasionally with the participation of foreign companies.

7.   Geologists believe that the eastern Barents Sea, an important spawning areas for fish and home to millions of seabirds, may hold vast oil reserves.

8.   Already, momentum is building for some sort of government-mandated oil reserve, and pressure is likely to build when Energy Secretary Richardson visits Boston next week.

9.   As foreign producers try to vanquish oil reserves, plummeting crude-oil prices have fallen to the lowest levels ever recorded, when adjusted for inflation.