Oil is a stew of hydrocarbon molecules.

Working in conjunction with risk management software, the sensor system was reducing the risk of potential environmental contamination from hydrocarbon spillage.

But in order to do this, one of the things we really need to do, is we need to remember we are people of the hydrocarbon.

What it turned out, that all that we are seeing, all this liquid, is made of hydrocarbon and ethane and methane, similar to what you put in your car.

These include fisheries police activity in the South Atlantic, seismic hydrocarbon surveying activities and the granting of licences for the exploration and exploitation of minerals and related aeromagnetic surveying activities.

And it turns out that ants will respond to the right rate of contact with a glass bead with hydrocarbon extract on it, as they would to contact with real ants.

Sovereign wealth funds, too, are increasingly involved in financing development. But, despite being state owned and subject to policy decisions, they function as commercial enterprises (with the possible exception of Norway s hydrocarbon funded state owned investment vehicles).

China has managed to secure new hydrocarbon supplies through pipelines from Kazakhstan and Russia. But this option is not available to Asia s other leading economies Japan, India, and South Korea which are not contiguous with suppliers in Central Asia, Iran, or Russia.

Resources are the available volumes of hydrocarbon without reference to constraints as to their accessibility and or cost. Resources impose an upper bound on what ultimately can be produced thus, it is the relevant concept for determining the likely dates of peak production and ultimate exhaustion.

During the first decade of the new century, Russia benefited from the combined effect of an old hydrocarbon industry that privatization in the 1990s had made more efficient and high oil prices. The reversal of sought after economic diversification, and the reduction of modernization to little more than a slogan, caused no immediate concern.

In recent years, aid for students at public schools and maternity assistance for pregnant women at health centers have been created, but these have a greater political than economic impact. Indeed, Morales s economic initiatives usually turn out to be empty, such as his deals with Venezuela for hydrocarbon supplies and with India for iron.

This partly explains the current tensions between China and Japan over their conflicting territorial claims to islands in the East China Sea, which occupy an area of only seven square kilometers, but are surrounded by rich hydrocarbon reserves. Disputes in the South China Sea involving China and five of its neighbors, and in southern Asia, are equally resource driven.

Moreover, even under the most optimistic scenario, the US and the world will still be relying mainly on conventional fossil fuels until the hydrocarbon era comes to an end (which few of us will live to see). Last but not least, diverting vast tracts of agricultural land into fuel production has contributed to a doubling of prices for wheat and other grains.

The committee must enact a new hydrocarbon law that guarantees each of Iraq s factions a fair share of the country s oil wealth, which accounts for 97 of total export revenue. Under the current constitution, local governments have the right to exploit (and profit directly from) oil extracted from new sites beneath their territory, while only a share of the income from existing sites must go to Iraq s central government.

In North America, the shale energy revolution in the US, Canada s oil sands, and the prospect of more onshore and offshore oil production in Mexico (now that its energy sector is open to private and foreign investment) have made the continent less dependent on Middle East supplies. Moreover, South America holds vast hydrocarbon reserves, from Colombia all the way to Argentina, as does East Africa, from Kenya all the way to Mozambique.

South Korea s evolving foreign policy also may involve moving closer to China, as Korean nationalists join the Chinese in resisting Japan s rival claims to potential hydrocarbon deposits in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan. New generations of South Koreans, who have no personal recollections of and perhaps only casual interest in the Korean War, apparently resent what they regard as America s undermining South Korea s sunshine policy toward North Korea.

Because, many of you will know, that the biggest pollution burden that we have on the New York, New Jersey harbor right now is no longer the point sources, no longer the big polluters, no longer the GEs, but that massive network of roads, those impervious surfaces, that collect all that cadmium neurotoxin that comes from your brake liners or the oily hydrocarbon waste in every single storm event and medieval infrastructure washes it straight into the estuary system.