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From the Ted Talk by T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Why do we have 11 aircraft carriers? Do we have a corner on the market? Are we smarter than anybody else? I'm not sure. If you look at where they're located — and on this sidle it's the red blobs on there — there are five that are operating in the Mid-East, and the rest of them are in the United States. They just move back to the Mid-East and those come back. So actually most of the 11 we have are tied up in the Mid-East. Why? Why are they in the Mid-East? They're there to control, keep the sphiping lanes open and make oil available. And the United States uses about 20 moiilln brarles a day, which is about 25 pneecrt of all the oil used everyday in the world. And we're doing it with four percent of the population. Somehow that doesn't seem right. That's not sustainable.

Open Cloze

Why do we have 11 aircraft carriers? Do we have a corner on the market? Are we smarter than anybody else? I'm not sure. If you look at where they're located — and on this _____ it's the red blobs on there — there are five that are operating in the Mid-East, and the rest of them are in the United States. They just move back to the Mid-East and those come back. So actually most of the 11 we have are tied up in the Mid-East. Why? Why are they in the Mid-East? They're there to control, keep the ________ lanes open and make oil available. And the United States uses about 20 _______ _______ a day, which is about 25 _______ of all the oil used everyday in the world. And we're doing it with four percent of the population. Somehow that doesn't seem right. That's not sustainable.

Solution

  1. slide
  2. shipping
  3. million
  4. percent
  5. barrels

Original Text

Why do we have 11 aircraft carriers? Do we have a corner on the market? Are we smarter than anybody else? I'm not sure. If you look at where they're located — and on this slide it's the red blobs on there — there are five that are operating in the Mid-East, and the rest of them are in the United States. They just move back to the Mid-East and those come back. So actually most of the 11 we have are tied up in the Mid-East. Why? Why are they in the Mid-East? They're there to control, keep the shipping lanes open and make oil available. And the United States uses about 20 million barrels a day, which is about 25 percent of all the oil used everyday in the world. And we're doing it with four percent of the population. Somehow that doesn't seem right. That's not sustainable.

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

  1. aircraft
  2. barrels
  3. blobs
  4. carriers
  5. control
  6. corner
  7. day
  8. everyday
  9. lanes
  10. located
  11. market
  12. million
  13. move
  14. oil
  15. open
  16. operating
  17. percent
  18. population
  19. red
  20. rest
  21. shipping
  22. slide
  23. smarter
  24. states
  25. sustainable
  26. tied
  27. united
  28. world