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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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.

  Jim Atkinson

  Religious, Horse, Attachment

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• The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

  James Frey

  Air, Cities, Pollution Control

  James Frey (2008). “Bright Shiny Morning”, p.292, Hachette UK

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• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, Politics, Energy

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• The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

  B. C. Forbes

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

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• Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Real, Names, Oil

  "Katrina’s Real Name" by Ross Gelbspan, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2005.

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• I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy [the oil industry], that they are being watched.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Oil, Messages

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  Carl Pope

  Oil, America, Lines

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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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• I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Oil, Too Much, Proposal

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• Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Responsibility, Marketing, Bucks

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

  Ron Wyden

  Oil, Administration, Helping

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