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It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild Rieber, diverted…

— Noam Chomsky

“Incidentally, there's a little historical footnote here, if you're interested. The oil company that was authorized by the Treasury Department under Bush and Clinton…

— Noam Chomsky

Not everybody has experience in drilling for oil in the Permian Basin, but the same thing is happening in every industry everywhere in some…

— Ken Moelis

By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United…

— Barack Obama

If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies…

— Rafael Correa

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much…

— David Letterman

BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease…

— Carl Safina

Brazil does not want to become an exporter of crude oil. No. We want to be a country that exports oil byproducts - more…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

— Edwin Drake

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

There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time…

— Haley Barbour

“While the Texas oil economy relies on the truth of geology, many of its inhabitants remain stubbornly resistant to its charms.”

— Peter Brannen