Oil Quotes

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.

I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

The oil and wine of merry meeting.

You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel.

One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

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.

There is no free market for oil.

Every year I will stock my locker up with body wash, different lotions, different oils and different creams.

If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

We cannot drill our way out of our addiction to oil.

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

You can't have oil without oil spills.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

I think garlic is absolutely critical. Lemon is absolutely critical to boost the immune system. Olive oil is absolutely critical ... just one teaspoon, it will last the whole month.

Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

Oil rich boys . . . had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn't even noticed they'd taken your boots.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

Chavez's oil is unimportant for Bolivia... We are not dependent on Venezuela. We complement each other. Venezuela shares its wealth with other countries, but that doesn't make us subordinate.

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.

This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.

J. Paul Getty, who still hasn't been buried - they keep finding oil! Never got a dinner!