Oil Quotes
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
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That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil.
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Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.
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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.
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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.
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So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when
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Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.
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We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
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At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income.
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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.
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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.
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We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.
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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.
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I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to understand why my message keeps getting drowned out. Big oil and big coal are terrified by the green jobs message.
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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.
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We're having this conflict in Syria is because Vladimir Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe.
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Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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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.
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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.
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Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?
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We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
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A little oil makes machinery work easy.
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In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.
