Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a critical oil supply that should only be utilized when all other options to lower costs have… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail. — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
I use the petroleum jelly on my lips because they get very dry and it's truly the only thing that works. — Rachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum. — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum! — Josh Tickell Copy Share Image
American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken.… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
“Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: "The production of petroleum… — Jane Brox Copy Share Image
“Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other the container's inner wall. Principal problem was… — John Cage Copy Share Image
To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut… — Josh Tickell Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost,… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25… — Matthew Simmons Copy Share Image
CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this,… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in putting petroleum or preservatives on my skin. Over time, you kind of just want to go back to… — Lindsey Wixson Copy Share Image
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Turkeys energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over… — Ali Babacan Copy Share Image
“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
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