Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. — Michael Pollan 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
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 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
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
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
You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process… — Al Gore 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
The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural… — John Todd Copy Share Image
The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image.… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own… — Charles Eisenstein 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
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
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there. — Dan Simmons 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
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
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
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
The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us. — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
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