Oil Price Quotes - Page 2

• Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Oil, World, Economy

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• I think Virgin Blue is still a very promising and exciting business.
  Now, I know that's not a view that's widely held in the market but I think the market is simply throwing it into the too-hard basket at the present time because of the oil price events.
  But we think it is still a very exciting business.

  Chris Corrigan

  Inspirational, Business, Optimistic

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• I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

  Ron Wyden

  Thinking, Oil, Political

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• Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, Oil, Expectations

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• A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Anxiety, Dollars

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• We're in a world of triple-digit oil prices for the foreseeable future.

  Jeff Rubin

  Oil, World

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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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• The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

  Gordon Brown

  Oil, Creating, Environmental

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• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Oil, Economic, Explosions

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• Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.

  James Surowiecki

  Iran, Oil, Vices

  "TROUBLED WATERS OVER OIL". www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.

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• The economy has settled into a sustainable, self-reinforcing growth path, .. All major categories of the economy have contributed to economic growth. Now that businesses have begun to add to payrolls, the current expansion is self-reinforcing. Only external shocks, such as terrorist attacks or a surge in oil prices, could derail the recovery.

  Sung Won Sohn

  Recovery, Self, Oil

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• I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

  Ken Salazar

  Thinking, Oil, Economy

  "Could US gas prices reach $9 a gallon?". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 26, 2012.

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• So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia.

  Frank Carlucci

  Thinking, Government, Years

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