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The price of oil has tumbled in the past few months. But is it necessarily bad news for the renewables sector? Anna Petherick investigates.

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Figure 1: The price of oil takes a tumble in 2014.
Figure 2: Crude oil imports to the United States by country of origin.

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  1. Anna Petherick is a freelance news writer based in Oxford, UK,

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Petherick, A. The big drop. Nature Clim Change 5, 191–192 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2543

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