Strange, strange are the dynamics of oil and the ways of…

The conniving, rich oilmen that were so desperate to prevent and frustrate the Paris Agreement found cheerleaders in Mr. Trump and his party. They…

— Winnie Byanyima

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

— Noam Chomsky

The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The…

— David Deming

There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To…

— Wendell Berry

You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that…

— Al Gore

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980.…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other the container's inner wall. Principal problem was finding a…

— John Cage

The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual…

— Russell Kirk

Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago),…

— Matthew Simmons

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been…

— Fred Hoyle

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.”

— Christopher Hitchens

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 time you…

— Dick Gregory

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and…

— Harry Houdini