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
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
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
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
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
Gas grills are a no-no. Gas is a petroleum product. Rather than a smokey flavor, it will add a a petroleum-based weird… — Johnny Trigg 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
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 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
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
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
“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
“Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other the container's inner wall. Principal problem was… — John Cage 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
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
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 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
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… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton… — Harry Houdini 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 debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less… — Chuck Klosterman 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 suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to… — Fred Hoyle 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
You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put… — David Letterman 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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy… — Oliver North 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
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