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  • I imagine us driving off in some old oil-burning Olds or Buick, going down the road like a smudge pot.

    what's life without an enemy? Jerry Ratch 2011

  • All Ameren has to do is kinda sorta maybe refashion one of its coal-ash spewingWorld War II-era coal-fired and oil-burning plants into FutureGen 2.0 -- an infeasible, prohibitively expensive, accident and leak-prone, and chimerical scheme of oxy-combustion technology that will sorta kinda maybe capture, compress, pump and dump CO2 into Illinois 'aquifers and porous caverns.

    Jeff Biggers: Pay Day: Big Coal Lobby/Utility Giant Rake in $1 Billion to Create FutureGen Toxic Dump Jeff Biggers 2010

  • The state oil company, Nunaoil, had one of the largest booths, with an eye-catching flame flaring out of an oil-burning lamp.

    Oil on Ice 2009

  • For the first time, all of America's 150 oil-burning facilities and 1,500 coal-fired power plants would have to limit emissions of mercury and other air toxics -- a class of nearly 200 hazardous, haphazardly regulated chemicals that have been the subject of the Poisoned Places series by the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News and NPR.

    Corbin Hiar: Why the EPA's Forthcoming Power Plant Rule Is a Big Deal Corbin Hiar 2011

  • All Ameren has to do is kinda sorta maybe refashion one of its coal-ash spewingWorld War II-era coal-fired and oil-burning plants into FutureGen 2.0 -- an infeasible, prohibitively expensive, accident and leak-prone, and chimerical scheme of oxy-combustion technology that will sorta kinda maybe capture, compress, pump and dump CO2 into Illinois 'aquifers and porous caverns.

    Jeff Biggers: Pay Day: Big Coal Lobby/Utility Giant Rake in $1 Billion to Create FutureGen Toxic Dump Jeff Biggers 2010

  • I was building the recumbike to avoid having to use my noisy, oil-burning, smelly, heavy, gas-guzzling 1990 Jeep Cherokee 4×4 with 290Kmi on it for work and errands.

    PIMP MY ECO-RIDE CONTEST: Win a Strida Folding Bike! | Inhabitat 2009

  • The state oil company, Nunaoil, had one of the largest booths, with an eye-catching flame flaring out of an oil-burning lamp.

    Oil on Ice 2009

  • When this proved impracticable, Dain reluctantly ordered the installation of the oil-burning Argand lamp widely in use at the time.

    Loch Traignarry Light Mark Reep 2011

  • All Ameren has to do is kinda sorta maybe refashion one of its coal-ash spewingWorld War II-era coal-fired and oil-burning plants into FutureGen 2.0 -- an infeasible, prohibitively expensive, accident and leak-prone, and chimerical scheme of oxy-combustion technology that will sorta kinda maybe capture, compress, pump and dump CO2 into Illinois 'aquifers and porous caverns.

    Jeff Biggers: Pay Day: Big Coal Lobby/Utility Giant Rake in $1 Billion to Create FutureGen Toxic Dump Jeff Biggers 2010

  • Currently, St. Lucia derives all of its electricity from oil-burning plants, not uncommon in the sun-splashed Caribbean.

    St. Lucia: Geothermal Energy Planned For Volcanic Caribbean Island 2010

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