When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is… — James Baker Copy Share Image
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… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills,… — Josh Tickell Copy Share Image
That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and… — David Deming Copy Share Image
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day -… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there. — Dan Simmons 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
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 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
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future. — Enrique Pena Nieto 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
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and… — Gerald R. Ford 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
The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal,… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based… — Dan Simmons 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
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
“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
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
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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