For example, in the fats market, margarine is a substitute for butter.

There is no free market for oil.

The natural market for the petrol produced in Cuba is the United States.

There are only two suppliers of petrol and diesel fuel on the Taiwan Province of China market.

The high price of oil was governed by the market and was beyond the control of energy exporting countries.

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(d) Utilization of agricultural surpluses creation of commercial opportunities from by products such as glycerol and oilcake

The collusive behaviour distorted competition in the fuel market to the detriment of the end customer who bought fuel from filling stations.

Several animal and vegetable oils are being displaced in the food market as a result of health factors biodiesel from these resources could offer a high value alternative market for oilseed and tallow producers.

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The remaining 15 per cent of the space heating market is covered by electrical (12 per cent) and oil (3 per cent) heating.

The Supreme Council studied the situation in the oil market and the effects of the fall in prices on the economies of member States.

There has been a steady effort to arrive at market based prices for energy commodities, and prices of some of them (notably oil products) have for some years been derived from the world market price.

The unusual disruption in the oil markets was exacerbated by recent natural disasters in oil producing regions and lack of investment in refineries.

In the market for fresh vegetables, for example, prices must balance the supply and demand for the current harvest. By contrast, oil producers and others in the industry can keep supply off the market if they think that its price will rise later, or they can put extra supply on the market if they think the price will fall.

The seed is pressed to extract its oil content and the remaining cake can be either used as high protein content cattle fodder or burned as an energy source for the production of electricity.

Whereas many oil market participants have blamed speculation, most economists defend how oil markets have performed and point to economic fundamentals. One argument that economists use is that higher prices are due to the weak dollar.

But in the nine years before Drake struck oil, in 1859, at least five sixths of that whale oil illuminating market disappeared, thanks to fatal competitors, chiefly oil and gas made from coal, to which the whalers had not been paying attention.

OPEC also said in a monthly report that low crude oil prices have prompted global refiners to produce more refined oil, thus increasing the degree of excess supply to the market.

Despite the oil market s size, speculation can move prices because of the inelasticity of demand and supply. Oil demand is slow to change because of behavioral inertia and fixed technology, while adjusting production takes time.

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Added to the uncertainties in oil market outlook is the rise in Iraq s output following the expansion of the United Nations oil for food programme in February 1998.

As China's exports of petroleum products have a huge impact on the Asian market, teapot refinery got more attentions.

Secondly, we must seek to achieve greater transparency and action with respect to oil markets.

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Suburban sprawl encourages people to drive many miles to work, school and stores.

More importantly, Cargill and one other company ship 50 percent of the palm oil that goes to China.

When the United States went to war, oil cost less than 25 a barrel, and futures markets expected it to remain there for a decade. Futures traders knew about the growth of China and other emerging markets but they expected supply mainly from low cost Middle East providers to increase in tandem with demand.

China solves it by an edict. At some point they'll just declare that no gasoline car will come into a city, and that will be it.

They never see you cleaning the grease out of the sink or wiping out of the oven the beef gravy or apple juice that sizzles over the dish onto your grill.

Oil producers can also restrict supply by holding oil inventory in tankers at sea or in other storage facilities. Conversely, producers can put more oil on the market by increasing production or by running down their inventories.

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They're worthless!

But actually, I mean, this feeling of helplessness comes in because most Americans actually feel that oil prices are the result of a conspiracy, not of the vicissitudes of the world oil market.

The IEA's report calls this breakdown evidence of a structural shift in the market. But the same pattern followed the 1973 4 and 1979 80 oil crises, when prices dropped from their highest peaks, but stayed quite high for years, representing a drag on the stock market, the housing market, and the world economy.

Second, because Rosneft must repay its external debt, it is likely to use its bailout cash to buy dollars, which can only result in further downward pressure on the ruble. Rosneft has denied this publicly, but the markets nonetheless seem to expect that the newly printed rubles will flood the currency markets.

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