Quotes About Oil

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

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay more for oil.

Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.

I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?

In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty. It's got heavy metals in it. It's got bad stuff in it.

As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil.

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

It's an absurd world - you know, billionaires in Birkenstocks. But I'd rather have nerdy tech guys as the next Carnegie than oil tycoons.

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

We have the resources and technology to produce more energy than we consume and break our long-standing dependence on foreign sources of oil. All we need is the will. In fact, there's a path to follow, one that North Dakota blazed over the last decade by building a comprehensive energy plan we called Empower North Dakota.

We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

Los iraquíes querían el final de nuestra presencia así como del régimen de Sadam. Querían controlar su propio país y su propio petróleo. Los sirios querían recuperar el Golán. Los palestinos querían un Estado, aunque consistiera en menos del 22 por ciento del protectorado de Palestina, no un muro de seis metros y ocupación.

Ahora bien, visto de modo retrospectivo, esa retirada —en una época en que los Estados Unidos no habían tomado un partido en Oriente Próximo— fue una de las grandes tragedias de nuestro tiempo. Los europeos nos apoderamos de la zona. Y fracasamos. Cuando los Estados Unidos volvieron a entrar en la región un cuarto de siglo más tarde, lo hicieron por el petróleo y, poco después, como partidarios casi incondicionales y financiadores de Israel.

They knew they would either have to quit the business or swallow their pride and make peace with the oil giant.

Rockefeller's overwhelming influence on the oil industry stemmed from the conflict between his overmastering need for order and the turbulent, unruly nature of the infant industry.

He believed in Standard Oil and gladly purchased all available stock from other directors.

You see, this scheme is bound to work. It means an absolute control by us of the oil business.

Had Rockefeller unloaded the oil stock on Junior, editorialists would also have accused him of fleeing retribution and responsibility.

As an ardent temperance advocate, he was extremely uncomfortable around drinkers—perhaps one reason why he seldom visited the oil fields.

Searching for oil was wildly unpredictable, whereas refining seemed safe and methodical by comparison.

Despite the low price of Russian oil, Standard barred it from America and retained nearly 80 percent of world markets in the late 1880s.