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From the Ted Talk by T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas
Unscramble the Blue Letters
But the days of cheap oil are over. They're over. They make it very clear to you, the Saudis do, they have to have 94 dollars a barrel to make their social commitments. Now I had people in Washington last week told me, he said, "The suadis can pcudore the oil for five dollars a brrael. That has nothing to do with it. It's what they have to pay for is what we are going to pay for oil." There is no free market for oil. The oil is percid off the margin. And the OPEC nations are the ones that pirce the oil.
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But the days of cheap oil are over. They're over. They make it very clear to you, the Saudis do, they have to have 94 dollars a barrel to make their social commitments. Now I had people in Washington last week told me, he said, "The ______ can _______ the oil for five dollars a ______. That has nothing to do with it. It's what they have to pay for is what we are going to pay for oil." There is no free market for oil. The oil is ______ off the margin. And the OPEC nations are the ones that _____ the oil.
Solution
- barrel
- priced
- price
- saudis
- produce
Original Text
But the days of cheap oil are over. They're over. They make it very clear to you, the Saudis do, they have to have 94 dollars a barrel to make their social commitments. Now I had people in Washington last week told me, he said, "The Saudis can produce the oil for five dollars a barrel. That has nothing to do with it. It's what they have to pay for is what we are going to pay for oil." There is no free market for oil. The oil is priced off the margin. And the OPEC nations are the ones that price the oil.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
natural gas |
24 |
million barrels |
5 |
trillion dollars |
4 |
united states |
3 |
energy plan |
3 |
whale oil |
2 |
crude oil |
2 |
billion barrels |
2 |
million trucks |
2 |
methane hydrates |
2 |
big investor |
2 |
gas producer |
2 |
bridge fuel |
2 |
frack job |
2 |
air quality |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
collocation |
frequency |
natural gas producer |
2 |
Important Words
- barrel
- cheap
- clear
- commitments
- days
- dollars
- free
- margin
- market
- nations
- oil
- opec
- pay
- people
- price
- priced
- produce
- saudis
- social
- told
- washington
- week