Refinery Quotes

• 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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• As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

  John Shimkus

  Usa, Oil, United States

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• If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Oil, Use, Hard

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• We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Meaningful, Technology, People

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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dubai, World, Ferris Wheels

  Fareed Zakaria (2011). “The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Country, Past, Years

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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dubai, Oil, India

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• I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Jobs, Steel, Welding

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.]

  Maurice Levy

  Real, Data, Oil

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.

  Hillary Clinton

  Order, Oil, India

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• There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Oil, Rivers, Toxic Waste

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• With the films, it starts off with certain coordinates in the world and seeing what happens. What happens if you place yourself at an oil refinery in the Middle East? What happens if you place yourself in the White House Cabinet Room? What happens if you place yourself with Brad Pitt on the set of a film? And so on. And no matter what I capture, there is a sense of déjà vu to it, like you might have come across this visual before.

  Sarah Morris

  Oil, White, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.

  Charles R. Morris

  Years, Iron, Oil

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.

  Denis Hayes

  Kids, Cutting, Lakes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the United States, liberals have made it virtually impossible [to increase the supply of oil] by banning drilling in all sorts of places and preventing any new refinery from being built anywhere in the country in the last 30 years.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Years, Oil

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• What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.

  Chris Paine

  Oil, Car, Energy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  G.W. Bailey

  Character, Texas, Oil

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2008.

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• My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

  Robert Crais

  Thinking, Police, Hats

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• Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

  Joe Meno

  Love, Children, Loss

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.8, Akashic Books

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• I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

  George McGovern

  Europe, Oil, Tanks

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• Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Long, Keystone Pipeline

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• Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fall, Squares, Bridges

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Shadow of Innsmouth”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance.

  Claude Mandil

  Country, Exercise, Needs

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