Best Petroleum Quotes
50 Petroleum quotes by 43 unique authors
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When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with…
— James Baker
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Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that…
— Virgil Goode
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A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.
— Bertrand Russell
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The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture…
— Joe Bageant
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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the…
— Bill Moyers
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You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in…
— David Letterman
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People are kind of upset with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was out on his yacht. And when President Obama found…
— David Letterman
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That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and…
— Wendell Berry
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We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is…
— Gerald R. Ford
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever…
— Dick Gregory
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Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.
— John Hoeven
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Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are…
— Mike Rogers
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Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
— Simone Weil
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.
— Terry Pratchett
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Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
— Michael Pollan
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In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold…
— Dan Simmons
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The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities…
— Richard Lamm
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The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The…
— Stephen Kinzer
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Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
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The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
— Peter Diamandis
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We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.
— Lisa Murkowski
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
— Barry Commoner
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The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already…
— Daryl Hannah
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Iraq has a lot of critical needs. It's got to come up with budgetary resources to finance health care, education and other important public services.…
— Bill Murray
Who Wrote These Petroleum Quotes
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