Oil Companies Quotes - Page 3

• I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Book, Oil, People

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.

  Ida Tarbell

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will portray him as a climate criminal because he heads a big oil company. So, he'll be in for really tough confirmation hearings.

  Rich Lowry

  Oil, Hawks, Hearing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

  Bill McKibben

  Oil, Atmosphere, Chemicals

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Indeed one streak in our economy, we're missing the big oil companies. We're missing other big energy companies. We're missing the big picture, and I have a record of trying to go at the problems that actually exist, and I will continue to do that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Oil, Missing, Trying

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please.

  Rafael Correa

  Hands, Oil, Amazon

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!

  Ian Somerhalder

  Zero, Jobs, Technology

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• Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something. No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. It's a joke. Clearly he is a classic, old school bad guy. He's bad not because he works for an oil company but because he's evil. No, it's not a communist movie in any way.

  James Bobin

  Old School, Character, Oil

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, Oil, President

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• The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the environment; Dole said that if there was just some way this could interfere with people's sex lives, it would be perfect legislation.

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, Sex, Cutting

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• Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing plants, schools, theaters-everything you could conceivably think of that has nothing to do with religion, they are moving into big. They're even coming in as stockholders in the big oil companies, and the Bank of America is almost entirely owned by the Catholic Church.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Moving, Wine, School

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• This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.

  Ed Murray

  Change, Opportunity, Oil

  "Mayor: Port needs new permit to host Shell oil-drilling fleet" by Daniel Beekman, www.seattletimes.com. May 4, 2015.

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• The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.

  Andrew Gould

  Oil, Want, Company

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• There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

  Pete Domenici

  Oil, Growing, Too Much

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• 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

  Oil, Resources, Company

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• Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

  Russ Carnahan

  Years, Oil, Energy

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• Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.

  Paul Hawken

  Years, Oil, Charging

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, Context Institute (p. 17), www.context.org. Summer 1995.

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• Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.

  Ron Wyden

  Gasoline Prices, Oil, People

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• The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

  Milton Friedman

  War, Government, Oil

  "There's no such thing as a free lunch".

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• Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Ideas, Oil, Environmental

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2014

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• Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, Oil

  "White House, Saudis: No election deal on oil". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, Hey, come see my play, hed say, Sure. Hed see one, Oh, good play - you know, very typical dad reaction.

  Eric McCormack

  Growing Up, Dad, Father

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• Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system

  Andrew Simms

  Oil, Sea, Pay

  "Fund clean energy with oil tax" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2006.

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• The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Top Down, Oil, Energy

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• Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

  Peter DeFazio

  America, Years, Oil

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