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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are…

— Gary Miller

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after…

— Mike Pence

“America experienced its first oil shock. Within days of the cutoff, oil prices rose from $2.90 to $11.65 a barrel; gasoline prices soared from…

— Albert Marrin

American workers have faced serious difficulties in the labor market since the first oil shock in 1973. Since that time, the pace of productivity…

— Janet Yellen

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil…

— David Pratt

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

— Daniel Yergin

It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The…

— Will Rogers

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before…

— Allyson Schwartz

Oil and gas was an up-and-down business, at best.

— Philip Anschutz

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to…

— Tim Murphy

Incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we're actually going to look at the facts.

— Hillary Clinton