Oil Quotes - Page 34

• If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

  Gwyn Morgan

  Investing, Ceo, Gas

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• To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so great a quantity as to furnish loading for many camels. The use made of it is not for the purpose of food, but as an unguent for the cure of cutaneous distempers in men and cattle, as well as other complaints, and it is also good for burning. In the surrounding country no other oil is used in their lamps, and people come from distant parts to procure it.

  Marco Polo

  Country, Lying, Science

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• Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Lying, Deep Water

  "Extreme Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR – Now Do You Get It?". www.facebook.com. June 2, 2010.

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• The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

  Tony Hayward

  Ocean, Water, Tiny

  "BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill". Interview with Tim Webb, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.

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• They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

  Billy Nungesser

  Black, Said, Wells

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• Bluefin tuna spawn just south of the oil spill and they spawn only in the Gulf. If they were to go through the area at a critical time, that's one instance where a plume could destroy a whole species.

  Larry J. McKinney

  Tuna, Spawn, Spills

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• This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.

  Carol Browner

  Country, Environmental, Disaster

  "Gulf oil well still gushing". "AM" with Lisa Millar, www.abc.net.au. May 31, 2010.

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• There could be oil coming up until August.

  Carol Browner

  August, Oil Spill

  "BP’s newest bid to cap well risks even bigger oil leak". nypost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

  Billy Nungesser

  Years, Two, Next

  "Gulf oil spill: 'Everybody's lost hope'". usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 31, 2010.

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• The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

  Milton Friedman

  War, Government, Results

  "There's no such thing as a free lunch".

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• It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Gone, Mark

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• About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

  Peter DeFazio

  Book, Would Be, Want

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• Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
  with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wind, Sound, Asian

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.338, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Moving, Land

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Gold, Debtors

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• When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  Tired, Design, Influential

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• A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.

  Joshilyn Jackson

  Mother, Smart, Book

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• It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.

  S. E. Hinton

  Boys, Hair, People

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.141, Penguin

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• Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.

  Euell Gibbons

  Tired, Men, Intimate Relationships

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• The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally, essentially would be the death knell to the US Dollar as the reserve currency. It means the US can't borrow with 'exorbitant privilege' anymore, and it means the US Treasury market is set for an out-of-control interest rate spiral.

  Addison Wiggin

  Mean, Dollars, Would Be

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• There's no way I can tag team with Randy Orton; he just wears too much baby oil!

  John Cena

  Baby, Team, Wwe

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• Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

  Nnimmo Bassey

  Coal, Soil, Holes

  "Naomi Klein kick-starts the activism at Copenhagen with call for disobedience" by Bibi van der Zee, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Agriculture, Way, Modern

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• In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage, and countries are scrambling to secure their own parochial interests at the expense of the common good.

  Lester R. Brown

  Land, Gold, World

  "The New Geopolitics of Food". foreignpolicy.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

  Chuck Close

  Squares, Color, Pieces

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