Company Quote by Matthew Simmons

The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.

— Andrew Gould

We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

— Abdallah Salem el-Badri

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely…

— Rebecca Solnit

But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up…

— Daniel Yergin

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental…

— Sherwood Boehlert

We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been…

— Barack Obama

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

— Pete Domenici

We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is…

— Nancy Pelosi

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund…

— Howard Hughes

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's…

— Randall Robinson

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

— Rick Renzi

Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

— Vinod Khosla