1. As for how he would handle the rise in gasoline prices, he said he would not use the strategic petroleum reserves, saving them for a national emergency. 2. Barrow, where Babbitt consulted with scientists and residents about whether he should allow commercial oil drilling in the petroleum reserve, has its own claims to fame. 3. -- The Energy Department will study the possibility of setting up a reserve of heating oil similar to the strategic petroleum reserve. 4. A main reason the islands have suddenly become the focus of such attention is that surveys have suggested there may be huge petroleum reserves in nearby waters. 5. Bush ads accuse Gore of tapping the emergency petroleum reserves to get oil for hair. 6. Bush said that Gore and the Clinton administration had not only erred in releasing oil from the petroleum reserve but had also mismanaged its distribution. 7. Bush said that the eruption of violence in the Middle East underscores the dangers of using the U.S. petroleum reserve to control domestic oil prices. 8. But there are believed to be petroleum reserves in the ocean south of East Timor. 9. High mountains, active volcanoes, petroleum reserves and pure-science research drew many academics elsewhere. 10. It controls the second-largest petroleum reserves in the world, as well as fertile earth and well-educated people. |