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Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

— Giovanni Bisignani

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields.…

— Jane Jacobs

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three…

— James Buchan

“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

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

The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would…

— Mark Levin

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

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 know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it…

— Ali al-Naimi

We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing…

— Matthew Simmons

If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their…

— Bill McKibben

The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main…

— Theodore Levitt