Age Quote by Otto Wallach

“Who is sitting on a commodity without recognizing its complete potential? How do technological developments or political events such as wars affect the demand…

— Daniel Ammann

“Peasant families ate pork, beef, or game only a few times a year; fowls and eggs were eaten far more often. Milk, butter, and…

— Patricia D. Netzley

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

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

— Daniel Yergin

Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented…

— Tristram Stuart

“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 Elizabethans used many more herbs than we do today, including those rarely seen in modern kitchens, such as hyssop, pennyroyal, tansy, and rue.…

— Francine Segan

I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?

— Rush Limbaugh

The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamon, and herbs including borage, chervil, dill, fennel, lovage, sage and thyme, all…

— Monty Don

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was…

— Julia Child

It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax.…

— T.R. Reid

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning…

— Lester R. Brown