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From the Ted Talk by Lisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now supposedly, oil taxes are the third rail of American politics — the no-fly zone. I actually — I agree that a dlloar a gollan on oil is probably too much, but I think that if we strtead this year with three cents a gallon on gasoline, and upepd it to six cents next year, nine cetns the following year, all the way up to 30 cents by 2020, that we could actually significantly reduce our gasoline consumption, and at the same time we would give people time to prepare, time to respond, and we would be raising money and raising csionuncesoss at the same time. Let me give you a little sense of how this would work.

Open Cloze


Now supposedly, oil taxes are the third rail of American politics — the no-fly zone. I actually — I agree that a ______ a ______ on oil is probably too much, but I think that if we _______ this year with three cents a gallon on gasoline, and _____ it to six cents next year, nine _____ the following year, all the way up to 30 cents by 2020, that we could actually significantly reduce our gasoline consumption, and at the same time we would give people time to prepare, time to respond, and we would be raising money and raising _____________ at the same time. Let me give you a little sense of how this would work.

Solution


  1. gallon
  2. consciousness
  3. dollar
  4. started
  5. cents
  6. upped

Original Text


Now supposedly, oil taxes are the third rail of American politics — the no-fly zone. I actually — I agree that a dollar a gallon on oil is probably too much, but I think that if we started this year with three cents a gallon on gasoline, and upped it to six cents next year, nine cents the following year, all the way up to 30 cents by 2020, that we could actually significantly reduce our gasoline consumption, and at the same time we would give people time to prepare, time to respond, and we would be raising money and raising consciousness at the same time. Let me give you a little sense of how this would work.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
oil spills 8
supply chain 3
cognitive dissonance 3
health care 3
minerals management 2
oil spill 2
oil prices 2
oil industry 2
santa barbara 2
barbara spill 2
persian gulf 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
santa barbara spill 2

Important Words


  1. agree
  2. american
  3. cents
  4. consciousness
  5. consumption
  6. dollar
  7. gallon
  8. gasoline
  9. give
  10. money
  11. oil
  12. people
  13. politics
  14. prepare
  15. rail
  16. raising
  17. reduce
  18. respond
  19. sense
  20. significantly
  21. started
  22. supposedly
  23. taxes
  24. time
  25. upped
  26. work
  27. year
  28. zone