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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Using oil as a fuel.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective fueled by burning oil
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Examples
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Today -- with a huge surplus of carbon permits in the system, and a carbon price at just 15 Euros per ton -- companies have more incentive to invest in a new generation of gas, coal and oil-fired generation power stations than in low carbon technologies.
Gordon Brown: Climate Change Action Is Economic Common Sense Gordon Brown 2010
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Today -- with a huge surplus of carbon permits in the system, and a carbon price at just 15 Euros per ton -- companies have more incentive to invest in a new generation of gas, coal and oil-fired generation power stations than in low carbon technologies.
Gordon Brown: Climate Change Action Is Economic Common Sense Gordon Brown 2010
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Today -- with a huge surplus of carbon permits in the system, and a carbon price at just 15 Euros per ton -- companies have more incentive to invest in a new generation of gas, coal and oil-fired generation power stations than in low carbon technologies.
Gordon Brown: Climate Change Action Is Economic Common Sense Gordon Brown 2010
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Today -- with a huge surplus of carbon permits in the system, and a carbon price at just 15 Euros per ton -- companies have more incentive to invest in a new generation of gas, coal and oil-fired generation power stations than in low carbon technologies.
Gordon Brown: Climate Change Action Is Economic Common Sense Gordon Brown 2010
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Today -- with a huge surplus of carbon permits in the system, and a carbon price at just 15 Euros per ton -- companies have more incentive to invest in a new generation of gas, coal and oil-fired generation power stations than in low carbon technologies.
Gordon Brown: Climate Change Action Is Economic Common Sense Gordon Brown 2010
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Today -- with a huge surplus of carbon permits in the system, and a carbon price at just 15 Euros per ton -- companies have more incentive to invest in a new generation of gas, coal and oil-fired generation power stations than in low carbon technologies.
Gordon Brown: Climate Change Action Is Economic Common Sense Gordon Brown 2010
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If power supply is tightly rationed this summer and the Chinese turn to backup oil-fired generators as they have in the past, oil demand may be significantly higher than previous predictions.
US, China Pull Oil Market in Opposite Directions James Herron 2011
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The MPs state the current proposals for electricity market reform put too much emphasis on building new gas plants to fill the gap left by the closure of about 19GW of nuclear, oil-fired and coal-fired plants by 2020, and not enough on decarbonising the power sector over the course of the 2020s in which gas without CCS will have "only a very limited role".
Renewables could be UK's major power source by 2030: WWF 2011
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Shaw, in June 30 testimony before the a Senate clean air and nuclear safety subcommittee, attacked another EPA rule meant to limit emissions of mercury and other toxic compounds from coal- and oil-fired power plants.
The Center for Public Integrity: What To Expect From A President Perry On The Environment? Some Texas-Sized Clues The Center for Public Integrity 2011
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Today -- with a huge surplus of carbon permits in the system, and a carbon price at just 15 Euros per ton -- companies have more incentive to invest in a new generation of gas, coal and oil-fired generation power stations than in low carbon technologies.
Gordon Brown: Climate Change Action Is Economic Common Sense Gordon Brown 2010
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