I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!
For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
Where oil is first found is in the minds of men
The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.
Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.
I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.
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