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Oil Quotes by James Buchan
- A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as…
- 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…
- 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…
- There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times…
- Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.
More Oil Quotes
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Bob Beauprez
- Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of… — 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… — Bono
- The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. — Bono