Oil Quotes - Page 11

• The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.

  Paul Monette

  Stupid, Dirty, Book

  Paul Monette (2017). “Reflections: The World of Paul Monette”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• I don't get why arabs are so pissed off at us. I mean they have enough oil for all of them to drive a hummer at what, maybe 1.50 a gallon?

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Pissed Off, Enough

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• We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Years, Guy

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• As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

  Ben Bova

  Israel, Long, Support

  Ben Bova (2006). “Powersat”, p.141, Macmillan

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• It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.

  Naomi Klein

  School, Hands, Government

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• There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply.

  Barack Obama

  World, Demand, Driving

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Nice, Fall

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

  John Shadegg

  Political, Energy, United States

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• The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

  Robert Pollin

  Yield, Coal, Earth

  Robert Pollin (2015). “Greening the Global Economy”, p.121, MIT Press

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• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

  Sharon Creech

  Art, Book, Museums

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• Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss is blue. An artist must go beyond the mercy of satin or water-from a gutty hue to that which is close to royal purple. All seasons and blossoms inbetween. Lavender. Theatrical and outrageous electric. Almost gray. True and false blue. Water and oil. The gas jet breathing in oblivion. The unstruck match. The blue of absence. The blue of deep presence. The insides of something perfect.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Lonely, Thinking, Artist

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• Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.

  Peter Welch

  Home, America, Use

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Rep. Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

  Major Owens

  Fall, Gasoline, Pumps

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• When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

  Ali Babacan

  Country, Iran, Turkeys

  "Iran importing gold to evade economic sanctions, Turkish official says" by Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.

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• The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.

  Kenny Marchant

  Alaska, Years, Energy

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• Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

  Daniel Yergin

  Surplus, Shortage, Cycles

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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

  World, Century, Resources

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

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• According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.

  Daniel Yergin

  Discovery, Revision, United States

  Daniel Yergin (2011). “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”, p.206, Penguin

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• I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.

  Claude Mandil

  Risk, Embargo, Please

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• All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Years, Track, Energy

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• I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

  Lynn Barber

  Iron, Giving, Want

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• We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.

  Midge Decter

  Light, Middle East, World

  "Neo-Cons in Doubt about the War in Iraq". KCRW Podcast "To the Point" with Warren Olney, www.kcrw.com. May 21, 2004.

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• A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

  Louis Nizer

  Doe, Boring, Should

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• Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for?  I do.  But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book.  I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus.  And it will be at a wedding.  And there will be a feast.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Book, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.206, Thomas Nelson

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• If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Song, Wall

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