Business Quote by Clint Johnson

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant…

— John Knowles

“In West Virginia, we've been extracting coal longer than anyone else. And after one hundred and fifty years of making other people rich, West…

— Tim DeChristopher

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

“Centralia, a mining town in Pennsylvania made uninhabitable by an underground fire that began in 1962 and is still burning today (the road into…

— Alastair Bonnett

Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

— Harold Hamm

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave…

— James Buchan

My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.

— Rege-Jean Page

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

— Wade Davis

Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense…

— Hilarie Burton

Oil was the big business in Tulsa and there was quite a bit of nightlife for a small town. You could never make any…

— J. J. Cale

“Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: "The production of petroleum has now…

— Jane Brox

Coalwood, West Virginia, is the little coal-mining town where I grew up, and it was there that five other teenage boys and I famously…

— Homer Hickam