Oil Industry Quotes

• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  Ralph Nader

  Fun, Green World, Oil

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• I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Running, Nature, Hydrogen Fuel

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.

  Wallace Pratt

  Oil, Judging, Mind

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• Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

  Everette Lee DeGolyer

  Art, Past, Men

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

  Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

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• Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

  William Barrett

  Dirty, Oil, California

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• One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Oil, Dollars, Lessons

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• In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell.

  Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

  Farewell, Humble, Oil

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• The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.

  Ray L. Hunt

  Wise, Country, Oil

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• Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Oil, Giving, Environmental

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• We drilled in the right place - we were simply 30 million years too late

  Richard Bray

  Years, Too Late, Right Place

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• Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

  Anna Lappe

  Oil, Trying, Doe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.

  Mark Levin

  Running, Government, Essence

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

  Gwyn Morgan

  Oil, Investing, Ceo

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• It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!

  Margaret Atwood

  Punishment, Cities, Oil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

  Joe Greene

  Years, Oil, Canada

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• Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

  Wallace Pratt

  Men, Oil, Mind

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• The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task. ... No oil company gets as excited about the customers in its own backyard as about the oil in the Sahara Desert. ... But the truth is, it seems to me, that the industry begins with the needs of the customer for its products. From that primal position its definition moves steadily back stream to areas of progressively lesser importance until it finally comes to rest at the search for oil.

  Theodore Levitt

  Moving, Science, Technology

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• A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry hit geological boundaries, which meant that it could no longer maintain the historic growth rates in petroleum extraction.

  Michael Kumhof

  Impact, Keys, Oil

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• Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

  Mason Cooley

  Determination, Nice, Hard Work

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• There is no free market for oil.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Oil, Opec, Free Market

  "An alternative to alternative energy: T. Boone Pickens at TED2012". blog.ted.com. February 29, 2012.

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• The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Oil, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Electric Power, Oil

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

  Al Gore

  Oil, Climate, Building

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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