Oil Quotes - Page 37

• Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, America

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• Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Trust, Anxious Thoughts, Two

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• There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Cartels, Opec, Free Market

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Vegetables, Chinese

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• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  T. Boone Pickens

  New York, Looks, Stock Exchange

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• There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, Wind, Sun

  "Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

  Alexa Chung

  Obsessed, Decided

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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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

  Too Much, Proposal, Break

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• I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

  Robert Ballard

  Mean, Sea, Resources

  "In Digital Age, What's Left For Modern Explorers". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 6, 2011.

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• I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Forever, Energy, Lasts

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• Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Growth, Balance, Problem

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• So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Choices, Gasoline, Action

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• The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Technology, Fuel Economy, Use

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• When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Stupid, Sunshine, Olives

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• I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

  Abbie Cornish

  Media, Stuff, Paint

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• In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

  Brad Carson

  Thinking, Two, People

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• When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

  Charlie Crist

  Issues, President, Helpful

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• The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

  Chris Chocola

  Stories, Scandal, Months

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• Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.

  Jane Asher

  Block, Cake, Wonderful

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• So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia.

  Frank Carlucci

  Thinking, Government, Years

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• You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

  Howie Carr

  Blood, Long, Energy

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• Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

  Jim Clyburn

  Independent, Years, America

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• Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

  Russ Carnahan

  Years, Energy, Pumps

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• There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

  Pete Domenici

  Growing, Too Much, Profit

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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