petrostate

/ ˈpɛtrəˌsteɪt /

noun

1. derogatory,  a small oil-rich country in which institutions are weak and wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few

Example Sentences

He also accuses Washington, which has deployed a fleet of warships in the Caribbean in a stated anti-drug operation, of seeking to depose him and seize the formerly rich petrostate's vast oil deposits.

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Last month, Trump also threatened a 25 percent “secondary tariff” on any country that buys crude oil from Venezuela, giving them an April 3 deadline to halt such trade with the South American petrostate.

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They’re being held in a petrostate for the third year in a row and are again awash with fossil fuel lobbyists.

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University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael E. Mann was even more blunt than Kalmus, saying that Trump will turn America into a “petrostate.”

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“And if Trump dismantles our democracy, as many fear will be the case, and the world’s greatest power, the U.S., becomes — in essence — a petrostate, it’s game over for climate action full stop for the foreseeable future, unless the rest of the world unites and takes bold action, including potentially the most punitive possible sanctions against the United States.”

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