Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there. — Dan Simmons 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
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food — Albert Allen Bartlett 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
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 consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us. — Veerappa Moily 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 automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. — Peter Diamandis 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
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
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
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
A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as… — Michael Kumhof Copy Share Image
The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Turkey's 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
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
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
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
Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but… — Michael Ignatieff 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
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
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
Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for… — Christopher Flavin 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
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
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
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
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
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — 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
I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum. — Marcy Kaptur 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 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
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
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