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Energy use and resources in the Pacific / by Peter Johnston
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Ambio : a Journal of the human environment.
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Ambio : a Journal of the human environment.
AUTHOR:
Johnston, Peter
PUBLISHED:
1984.
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322-326 pp.: maps ; 30 cm.
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In: Ambio : a Journal of the human environment, vol.13:5-6, 1984.
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Within the past few decades the island of the Pacific have become almost entirely dependent upon petroleum as their main source of energy. Some 96 percent of commercial energy demand is now met by refined petroleum products, strapping these countries to the oil price roller coaster.
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Although indigenous biomas energy is abundant it rarely enters the cash economy. Attempts are being made to improve efficiency of energy use and to sunstitutte local sources of energy for expensive, importe oil.
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Energy consumption--Pacific.
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Energy consumption.
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Oceania.
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