A tiny oil-eating bug that lives deep underground may allow the world's oil industry to unlock energy trapped in trillions of barrels of heavy crude, which is costly and dirty to produce using today's methods. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Slogans such as 'Raise fewer babies but more piggies,' and 'One more baby means one more tomb,' have been forbidden . picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

the organization that was created in 1960 to stabilize prices, today wields less clout than it once did over the cost of crude. picked by melgesevad 9 months ago

Oil prices slipped Friday in volatile markets, with traders anticipating prices will rise on demand concerns. picked by vyoma999 3 months ago

Women always say they want someone who listens and is kind and won't punch them on the shoulder and call them gay. New York City comedy troupe Don't Touch Me There shows you what women are really looking for. Slightly NSFW. picked by TraumaMamma 8 months ago

Cassetteboy chops up sound clips of TV shows etc, to make them say crude, and often hilarious things. This is David Attenborough talking about Binge Booze Britain. (His other ones are definitely NSFW.. See Harry Potter 1 & 2 for example :p) picked by scazy-lumbag 5 months ago

As Web 2.0 style is all about glossy and shiny look, another option would be something rather crude, radical and provoking. Such as the grunge style — dirty look with irregular, nasty, sometimes even ugly and crooked visual elements. Will it establish itself as a trend? Probably not. However, it may be used once some creative and unconventional design approach is needed. picked by MasterPiece 7 months ago

The following provides an overview of some of the possible direct and indirect substitutes for crude oil in its use for transport fuel. picked by aus 2 months ago

Russian Communist Party members condemned the new "Indiana Jones" film on Friday as crude, anti-Soviet propaganda that distorts history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens. picked by lunasol 3 months ago

"Iran asked Japanese refiners to switch to the yen to pay for all crude oil purchases, after Iran's central bank said it's cutting holdings of the U.S. dollar."

Goes hand in hand with plummeting dollar value. picked by deepchill 1 year ago

He said he'd do it, he did it... will it matter? Don't worry, Canada has the second largest oil reserves in the world and we are still on good terms. (I hope that was common knowledge... please don't bomb us) picked by wwwilovefreefilmscom 7 months ago

Record surges in crude prices have propelled the world into an era in which oil may never be cheap again. Instead of presenting its usual united but ineffectual demand for increased oil production to OPEC with the aim of reducing prices, G8 discussions focused on how best to curb demand. picked by chinook 3 months ago

Pumping oil is surprisingly inefficient: For decades, companies relied on ground pressure and crude secondary well-flooding methods that recovered just one-third of a field’s reserves. Now, through enhanced oil recovery techniques, companies can collect up to three-quarters, dramatically lengtheninga field’s useful life. — D.C. picked by DerAlt 4 months ago

Crude oil closed above $100 a barrel for the first time on Tuesday afternoon, vaulting through a longstanding psychological barrier amid persistent concern about whether production can keep up with rising global demand. picked by willster09 6 months ago

Can anyone find the humor in this article.. I know i'm a crude b*****d and people died.. but still, I had to laugh at a certain point.. I wish i knew how to do that spoiler cover up thingy.. but i'll just post my answer in the comments picked by smarty1052 11 months ago

Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S. culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals that many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes. picked by doggylives 4 months ago

A crude oil storage tank exploded as two teens were jumping on it, hurling the youths 150 yards to their deaths, deputies said Monday. picked by kxmk 1 year ago

Hai Yang Shi You 117 is among the largest floating production, storage and offloading vessel in the world. It can store as much as two million barrels of crude oil and can also serve as a offshore production unit.
Imagine the impacts on the environnement picked by wildminou 6 months ago

To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil. picked by direwookiee 3 months ago

"This is a culinary Frankenstein cooked by Bizarro, a crude combination of deliciousness into an artery-jamming fatty Voltron." picked by Lilo 10 months ago