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From the Ted Talk by Amory Lovins: Winning the oil endgame

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There is a huge amount of gas to be saved, about half the pocejtred gas at about an eighth of its price. And here are some no-brainer substitutions of it, with lots left over. So much, in fact, that after you've helandd the domestic oil frcesoat from aeras already approved, you have only this little bit left, and let's see how we can meet that, because there's a pretty febilxle menu of ways. We could, of course, buy more eiffnecciy. Maybe you ought to buy efficiency at 26 bucks instead of 12. Or wait to capture the second half of it. Or we could, of course, just get this little bit by continuing to irmpot some Canadian and Mexican oil, or the ethanol the Brazilians would love to sell us. But they'll sell it to Japan and China instead, because we have tariff barriers to ptecrot our corn farmers, and they don't.

Open Cloze


There is a huge amount of gas to be saved, about half the _________ gas at about an eighth of its price. And here are some no-brainer substitutions of it, with lots left over. So much, in fact, that after you've _______ the domestic oil ________ from _____ already approved, you have only this little bit left, and let's see how we can meet that, because there's a pretty ________ menu of ways. We could, of course, buy more __________. Maybe you ought to buy efficiency at 26 bucks instead of 12. Or wait to capture the second half of it. Or we could, of course, just get this little bit by continuing to ______ some Canadian and Mexican oil, or the ethanol the Brazilians would love to sell us. But they'll sell it to Japan and China instead, because we have tariff barriers to _______ our corn farmers, and they don't.

Solution


  1. forecast
  2. protect
  3. flexible
  4. areas
  5. projected
  6. handled
  7. efficiency
  8. import

Original Text


There is a huge amount of gas to be saved, about half the projected gas at about an eighth of its price. And here are some no-brainer substitutions of it, with lots left over. So much, in fact, that after you've handled the domestic oil forecast from areas already approved, you have only this little bit left, and let's see how we can meet that, because there's a pretty flexible menu of ways. We could, of course, buy more efficiency. Maybe you ought to buy efficiency at 26 bucks instead of 12. Or wait to capture the second half of it. Or we could, of course, just get this little bit by continuing to import some Canadian and Mexican oil, or the ethanol the Brazilians would love to sell us. But they'll sell it to Japan and China instead, because we have tariff barriers to protect our corn farmers, and they don't.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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climate protection 2
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efficient cars 2
billion dollars 2
fuel energy 2
domestic oil 2
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Important Words


  1. amount
  2. approved
  3. areas
  4. barriers
  5. bit
  6. brazilians
  7. bucks
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  9. canadian
  10. capture
  11. china
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  15. efficiency
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  17. ethanol
  18. fact
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  20. flexible
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  22. gas
  23. handled
  24. huge
  25. import
  26. japan
  27. left
  28. lots
  29. love
  30. meet
  31. menu
  32. mexican
  33. oil
  34. pretty
  35. price
  36. projected
  37. protect
  38. saved
  39. sell
  40. substitutions
  41. tariff
  42. wait
  43. ways