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- Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
- If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
- In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
- Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
- But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before…
- Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may…
- Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline…
- In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I…
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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… — 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