oil dependency
Fossil fuel addiction
Oil dependency is a nation's or economy's reliance on petroleum imports to meet energy needs, creating vulnerability to supply disruptions and price fluctuations.
The term often appears in policy discussions about energy security and climate change: The country is working to reduce its oil dependency through renewable energy investment.
Also called oil dependence.
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- fossil fuelsCombustible prehistoric organic deposits
- importsGoods brought in
- OPECPetroleum exporters' coalition
- crudeUnpolished, raw state
gasoline · gas prices · petrol station · addiction · foreign · foreign policy · barrel · reserves · embargo · oil shock · drilling · drilling rights · consumption · vulnerability · pipelines · refineries · geopolitics · national security
- Oil Marketsoil prices, crude oil, petroleum, oil production, oil reserves
- Oil Politicsoil politics, oil embargo, oil sanctions, OPEC, petrodollars
- oil industrypetroleum, oil fields, oil well, oil rig, oil production
- PetrostatesSaudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, United Arab Emirates
- VenezuelaCaracas, Simon Bolivar, arepa, Bolivar, cuatro
- regional crisespoverty, inequality, violence, crime, corruption
oil dependencyenergy conservation
Unchanging total in closed systems
sustainability · energy efficiency · degrowth · circular economy · reduced consumption
dependency, oily, oiliness, oiled, oiling, oilskin, oilcloth, depend, dependent