Oil Quotes
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I led by three or four feet, with Biggy John Biglow surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.
Brad Alan Lewis -
So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when
M. King Hubbert
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If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
Anna Friel -
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes -
American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
Ahmed Chalabi -
That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil.
Jack Straw -
Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.
Anzia Yezierska -
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
M. King Hubbert
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As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil. Not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.
Barack Obama -
We're having this conflict in Syria is because Vladimir Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe.
Andrea Tantaros -
Even if we were to sign peace today, the economic conditions in our country would not improve automatically because it will take some time to reach the level of oil production before the war and the oil prices are likely to remain low for some time as the supply of oil in the world is high and demand is low.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
S. E. Hinton -
Given the damage that just one oil spill could do to a coastal community, it seems to me that undoing the moratorium is just not worth it.
Frank Pallone -
In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.
Mother Teresa
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There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply.
Barack Obama -
Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the day they use hydrogen for transportation, this is the day that oil disappears.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani -
A little oil makes machinery work easy.
Sara Willis -
Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?
Van Jones -
I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani -
Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.
Nnimmo Bassey
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
Bono U2 -
American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.
Bill Gates -
GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.
Nuhu Ribadu -
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