Oil Quotes

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

Because the oils work in a different way from antibiotics, they do not have the usual side effects, and they tend to stimulate the immune system instead of depressing it.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

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.

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.

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

There is no free market for oil.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

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.

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

I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

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

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.

The oil and wine of merry meeting.

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

[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

There could be oil coming up until August.

The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.

Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.

I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

I always say, keep the oil. I said don't go in, but I said keep the oil.

If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

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.

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even