Oil Quotes - Page 31

• In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

  Vagit Alekperov

  Jobs, Unions, Soviet Union

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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, People

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• You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

  William Henry O'Connell

  Thug, Men, Water

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• If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

  Anna Friel

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Next

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• I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

  Bill Viola

  Thinking, Artist, House

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• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  Zac Hanson

  Dad, Real, Kids

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• Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

  Jeff Landry

  Jobs, Example, Small Business

  "Landry takes on fellow incumbent" by Adam Snider, www.politico.com. May 14, 2012.

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• Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Cost, Unions, Good Times

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• What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.

  John S. Watson

  Strong, People, Environmental

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• About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.

  John S. Watson

  Heart, Years, Issues

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• Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.

  John S. Watson

  Strong, Growth, Chinese

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• First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

  John S. Watson

  Energy, Pay, Firsts

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• Historically, the United States has had a wonderful energy policy. We're blessed with a diversity of resources. We have oil. We have gas. We have coal. We have nuclear. And renewables. And as a result, one of our biggest competitive advantages has been affordable energy. You need a strong economy and you need affordable energy to fuel that economy.

  John S. Watson

  Strong, Blessed, Diversity

  "Chevron's CEO: Affordable Energy Is Crucial". Associated Press interview, www.fool.com. December 27, 2012.

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• I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

  Harold Hamm

  Calling, Irresistible, Wanted

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• I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

  Harold Hamm

  Believe, Yield, Years

  "Birth Of A Wildcatter - How Harold Hamm Got His Start". www.forbes.com. December 6, 2012.

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• The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

  Harold Hamm

  Jobs, Impact, Years

  "Hamm: China's Latest Attempt to Tap US Energy Market Is A 'Disaster'". Interview with Lori Ann LaRocco, www.cnbc.com. Ocotber 14, 2010.

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• Appreciation is the oil that lubricates life and keeps your wheels turning easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels will still spin, but they are apt to become rusted with resentment and exhaustion. Since there is great truth in the well-known statement "We teach people how to treat us," you can start teaching others to shower you with appreciation by showering yourself first.

  Sue Thoele

  Appreciation, Teaching, People

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• In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Time, Texas, Years

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• Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.

  Luci Swindoll

  Beauty, Laughter, Eye

  Luci Swindoll (1989). “You Bring the Confetti”, W Publishing Group

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• We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and around the profligate wastefulness of the wars and campaigns required to defend such consumption. In recent years we have defined our national interest largely in terms of the oil fields and pipelines we need to procure fuel.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Years, Needs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Running, Distance

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• I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world we couldn't care less about climate change, that we feel entitled to drive whatever big cars we feel like, that we feel entitled to consume however much oil we like, the message we send is that a war for oil in the gulf is not a war to protect the world's right to economic survival-but our right to indulge. Now that will be seen as immoral.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, War, Car

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• Mixing oil and testosterone can be dangerous.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Mixing, Energy, Alternatives

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• The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

  Christopher Flavin

  Energy, Alternatives, Barrels

  Christopher Flavin (1985). “World Oil: Coping With the Dangers of Success”, Worldwatch Inst

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• This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

  Jimmy Carter

  Real, Independence, Faces

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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