Quotes About Oil

Come here and look out this window. You see that contraption down there?" Frank pointed at an automobile sputtering down the street. "I think people are going to buy quite a few of these new buggies and they need gasoline to make 'em go. It may be the thing of the future. There might only be a few gas wagons now, but someday there will be millions of the things. Oil is only twenty-eight cents a barrel right now. But what will it be in ten years?

The note was paid in full on the due date and Starr never robbed their bank. In fact, none of the Phillips banks were ever robbed. A remarkable record, considering that for many years there was at least one bank robbery per day in Indian Territory. Frank bragged that he never lost a penny in dealing with oil operators or outlaws.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, reflecting on Bush's "stay-the-course" strategy, said, "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drillin' rights on that man's head.

He felt the joy spread down his body like a slow anointing with holy oil, warm and soothing, from head to toe.

The residents blamed the "Gahmen", naturally. Since the explosion of social media, those "Gahmen" guys have been blamed for everything from HDB flat prices to the price of oil, climate change, the shortage of Hello Kitty dolls and kids not clearing their trays away at hawker centres.

Senators, MPs, diplomats and journalists belatedly realized that they needed to know about the new menace. They had looked the other way because they worried the demented Ayatollah Khomeini would invade Iraq and be in a position to move into Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and control most of the world's oil. Now the demented Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait and could move into Saudi Arabia and control most of the world's oil.

Unlike flowers, the animals he tried to macerate would not yield up their scent without complaints or with a mute sigh — they fought desperately against death…and in their fear of death created large quantities of sweat whose acidity ruined the warm oil… The objects would have to be quieted down, and so suddenly that they would have no time to become afraid or to resist. He would have to kill them.

By 2030, China will need the same amount of oil that is now being consumed in the United States. At this time, the U.S. uses over eighteen million barrels of oil a day, almost nine million of which is consumed by motor vehicles.2

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

For non-Jews in Europe, the top priority in the Middle East is not the survival of a Jewish state; the top priorities are political calm, access to oil, and sufficient economic development of the region so that its burgeoning and overwhelmingly young population does not swamp Europe's declining and aging one.

Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,

Then take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.

along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.

With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.

Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.

Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony,

And you are to tell the Israelites, ëThis will be My sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.

in addition to the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them according to all that I have commanded you.”