Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real terms in imports… — Ben Bernanke 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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
Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all… — Alexander von Humboldt 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
There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields… — Fatih Birol 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 Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing… — Nahum Goldmann Copy Share Image
Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare,… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image