Oil Quotes - page 25

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. (James Wolcott)
Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. View quote
Jan Schakowsky
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. View quote
Jane Asher
A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched. View quote
Jane McGonigal
I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system. View quote
Janelle Monae
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. View quote
Jeff Bingaman
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal. View quote
Jeff Goodell
But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid. View quote
Jeff Goodell
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. View quote
Jeff Goodell
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East. View quote
Jeff Goodell
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (Jeff Goodell)
If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil. View quote
Jeff Goodell
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet. View quote
Jeff Goodell
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. View quote
Jeff Landry
I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores. View quote
Jeff Miller
If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before. View quote
Jeremy Grantham
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. View quote
Jeremy Grantham
Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things. View quote
Jack Hanna
I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country. View quote
Jesse Metcalfe
But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil. (Jim Costa)
Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat. View quote
Jim Costa
We need financial regulation that allows businesses and the banks they use to have access to the tools that help keep prices of consumer goods - like groceries and home heating oil - steady, while ensuring that the taxpayers are never again on the hook for the types of wild bets that helped crash the economy in 2008. View quote
Jim Himes
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. View quote
Jim Ramstad
By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy. View quote
Jim Ryun