Oil Quotes
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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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A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming.
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The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far.
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This is an attempt by Indonesia to try and supplement their oil output because they have not been very successful in inviting foreign investment into their country to boost domestic production.
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Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.
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The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.
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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
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I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.
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Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!
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During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.
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People who work in diamonds and in oil wreck a lot of the Earth and a lot of the people on it.
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We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.
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There could be oil coming up until August.
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The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.
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A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
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There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
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We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.
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Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.
