Oil Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  Bart Gordon

  Country, Next, Serious

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• Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

  Jeff Goodell

  Middle East, Doe, Canada

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• Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

  Sylvia Earle

  Suffering, Horizon, Responsible

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as protection in case you have a terrible accident or your car is stolen. You don't use homeowners' insurance to pay your electricity and water bills; you have it as protection in case a fire or other catastrophic event produces a large expense. Obviously, any insurance policy that promises to cover every small, ordinary expense is going to be much more expensive than one that covers only extraordinary expenses.

  Harry Browne

  Fire, Car, Water

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• I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Alaska, Arabia

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• Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Too Much, Cheese

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.53, Diderot Publishing

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• There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

  Ray Davies

  Bread, Lorry, Strikes

  Song: (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman, Album: Low Budget

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• I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

  Dolly Parton

  Love You, Needs, Care

  Song: I'll Oil Wells Love You

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• I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  Warren Zevon

  Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol

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• Wrap the turkey up
  In aluminum foil
  My brother likes to masturbate
  With baby oil.

  Adam Sandler

  Baby, Brother, Turkeys

  Song: The Thanksgiving Song Performed by Adam Sandler

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• One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Business, Revolution, Libya

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• … what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Maturity, Engineering, Snakes

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• All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Soil, Foreign Oil

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

  Peter DeFazio

  America, Years, Environmental

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• In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.

  Marc Faber

  People, Six, Cuckoos

  "MARC FABER: Sure Gold Is Down, But Apple Is Down By Twice As Much" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. April 12, 2013.

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• The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.

  Robert Greenwald

  Baby, Fate, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Nuclear, Coal, Use

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Goal, Dollars

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• Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

  John Hoeven

  Alaska, Oklahoma, Texas

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• The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.

  John Hoeven

  Strong, Technology, Carbon Footprint

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• Iraq is not about oil.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Iraq

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