Change Quote by Fred Hoyle

“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

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

What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was…

— Lisa Murkowski

Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.

— Wilbur Ross

A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have…

— William J. Clinton

“…For many years now, that way of living has been scorned, and over the last 40 or 50 years it has nearly disappeared. Even…

— Wendell Berry

Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!

— Josh Tickell

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

— Dennis Weaver

“This is our struggle: to re-bury the coal and slow the flow of petroleum from the earth," she counted them off from pinky to…

— Robert Stikmanz

“Each year, a shipping publicist told me, 'More oil is poured down the drain by mechanics changing their engine oil than is spilled by…

— Rose George

There'll be years of teething problems searching for alternatives to oil, but they have to be embraced with passion because our oil is finite,…

— Trudie Styler

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action…

— Alexander von Humboldt