Quotes About Resources

I am not against oil multinationals. What I am saying is that you end up going to them when you are not able to develop your own technology to extract oil.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

It makes no sense to have oil if to get it out you have to let the multinationals come and take it.

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

Iraq is not about oil.

We don't have all the time in the world with oil. We have to use oil while it makes sense to do so.

Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

We get more oil from Canada than any country.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

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.

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, 'Oh, we're energy poor; we don't have enough oil; we don't have enough natural gas.'

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.

Compounding Iraq's problem is that its economy is highly dependent on oil.

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

Research in basic sciences now requires resources that no one country can provide.

Through my ongoing work as a UNAIDS Ambassador and with the End AIDS Coalition, I remain personally committed to aligning resources and galvanizing global action and working with amfAR to make AIDS history.