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Quotes About Oil

The exploration for oil and gas off our shores can play a role in making energy more affordable and accessible... However, effective safety measures must be in place, and exploration must be done in an environmentally sensitive manner that in no way interferes with our military.
~ Ander Crenshaw
Iraq is not about oil.
~ Bobby Ray Inman
There is no free market in oil.
~ Peter DeFazio
BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
~ Carl Safina
We don't have all the time in the world with oil. We have to use oil while it makes sense to do so.
~ Yemi Osinbajo
I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.
~ John Amos
The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames.
~ Diana Nyad
The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing.
~ Jason Statham
Oil is a very important component of economic growth.
~ Maria Bartiromo
We get more oil from Canada than any country.
~ Paul Cellucci
It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
~ Barbara Castle
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
~ Ron Kind
It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.
~ Dennis Weaver
In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.
~ Rick Santelli
There is no free market for oil.
~ T. Boone Pickens
No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.
~ David Pratt
This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
~ Sam Brownback
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
~ Jeff Goodell
I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.
~ Navid Negahban
In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.
~ Marc Faber
China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.
~ Henry Paulson
Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.
~ Ivan Krastev
I wear Aveda Energizing oil. I am big into aromatherapy.
~ Sharon Stone
We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan