Petroleum Quotes

• When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

  James Baker

  Thinking, Energy, Excess

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• A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

  James Buchan

  Oil, Water, Today

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• Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Apology, Drunk, Environmental

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• You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dinosaurs, Said, Political Correctness

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• Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

  John Hoeven

  Pipeline, Way, Truck

  "A blueprint for environment, energy". www.politico.com. April 15, 2012.

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• Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

  Virgil Goode

  Energy, United States, Alternatives

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• The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

  James Buchan

  Cities, People, Toil

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• Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

  Dan Simmons

  Economy

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.547, Spectra

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• A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

  Bertrand Russell

  Smell

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.109, Routledge

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• Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Lying, Rocks, Issues

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• The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.

  David Deming

  Mistake, Moving, Oil

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• Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Wheat

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• The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, World, Century

  Daniel Yergin (2011). “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”, p.207, Penguin

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• Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

  Michael Pollan

  Humanity, Sun, Eating

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!

  Josh Tickell

  People, Fuel, Growing

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• Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Land, Agriculture, Use

  "Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis" by Albert A. Bartlett in "American Journal of Physics", Volume 46, No. 9 (pp. 876-888), September 1978.

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• The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

  Veerappa Moily

  People, Needs, Austerity

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• The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves on the planet, 70% of the food we eat is imported ... that there are 700,000 families in extreme poverty who go to bed hungry every night.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Country, Night, Poverty

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.

  Michael Klare

  Military, Oil, United States

  "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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• Gas grills are a no-no. Gas is a petroleum product. Rather than a smokey flavor, it will add a a petroleum-based weird taste into your meat. However, if you already have a gas grill, you can bring in some smoke flavor by tightly rolling wood chips in tin foil really tight and placing them on the top of your burners.

  Johnny Trigg

  Meat, Rolling, Tin

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• Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Important, Foundation, Natural

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• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

  John McCain

  Country, Russia, Gas Stations

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• There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the North Sea and the US are collapsing ... time is running out.

  Fatih Birol

  Running, Believe, Sea

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• There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it.

  David Letterman

  Oil, Mexico, Parks

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• In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

  Dan Simmons

  Grease, Meat, Foam

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.254, Spectra

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