Oil Quotes - page 5

The Italians of the South live, just as Africans do, on bread dipped in olive oil. (Norman Lewis)
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. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's. View quote
Armand Hammer
Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out. View quote
James Surowiecki
The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply. View quote
James Surowiecki
Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high. View quote
James Surowiecki
We need to move away from oil, period. View quote
James Woolsey
Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil. View quote
James Woolsey
As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag. View quote
Alice Sebold
Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices. View quote
Christopher A. Pissarides
Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. (Lawrence Anthony)
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion. View quote
Barbara Castle
This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development. View quote
Itzhak Perlman
If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. View quote
Mahmoud Darwich
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. View quote
Dennis Weaver
It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone. View quote
Dennis Weaver
Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil. View quote
Daryl Hannah
No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil. View quote
Daryl Hannah
I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct. View quote
Renny Harlin
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it. View quote
Vinod Khosla
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)
All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs. View quote
Allyson Schwartz
Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline. View quote
Allyson Schwartz
I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can. View quote
Anne Burrell
Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs. View quote
Aubrey McClendon