Petroleum Quotes

• All petroleum products are just going crazy in the last few days.

  

  Bob Bartlett
  • Crazy
  • Products
  • Petroleum

• The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less than it is, and the value of coal was considerably less than it is, there would be much less debate about this.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Value
  • Industry
  • Climate Change

• Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to BP. Who's company is that? British Petroleum, isn't it? I suppose that is not bad. I have to tell that British Petroleum's capitalization is significantly related to the fact that it owns more than 19 percent of Rosneft, which has vast oil reserves both in Russia and abroad. This has its impact on the company's stability as well.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • British
  • Stability
  • Capitalization

• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Flame
  • Lard
  • Charcoal fire

• Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • Energy
  • Alternatives
  • Cleaners

• Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

  

  Albert Allen Bartlett
  • Food
  • Agriculture
  • Petroleum

• The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.

  

  David Deming
  • World
  • Energy
  • Moving

• I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Country
  • Oil
  • Convinced

• Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Persons
  • Oil
  • Pounds

• Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

  

  Alexander von Humboldt
  • Action
  • Forces
  • Petroleum

• Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Records
  • Consumers
  • Profit