Oil Quotes

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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also… — Margaret Atwood
Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to… — Dan Aykroyd
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' — Joey Adams
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is… — Abu Bakar Bashir
Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. — Bob Beauprez
The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer. — Bob Beauprez
Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil… — Bob Beauprez
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or… — Henry Ward Beecher
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. — Josh Billings
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. — Aeschylus
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and… — Bono
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. — Bono
The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other,… — Alain de Botton
With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes… — Jo Brand
Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All… — Jeff Bridges
I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice… — Alton Brown
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions… — Warren Buffett
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as… — James Buchan
Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more… — James Buchan
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil… — James Buchan

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