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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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