OIL QUOTES
quotations about oil
Our enemies are fully aware that they can use oil as a weapon against America. And if we don't take this threat as seriously as the bombs they build or the guns they buy, we will be fighting the War on Terror with one hand tied behind our back.
BARACK OBAMA
speech, February 28, 2006
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
RALPH NADER
Loose Talk
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century.
MUHAMMAD REZA PAHLAVI
The Shah's Story
We are the addicts, the oil producers are the pushers.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
attributed, Commodities: 50 Things You Really Need To Know
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide.... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
THOMAS EDISON
attributed, Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh
Our oil supply is secure, not because our government threatens to use force against those who would make it insecure, but because the world's oil suppliers want to make money.
DAVID R. HENDERSON
attributed, Handbook of Oil Politics
Oil is a lousy investment because it isn't an investment. It's just a bet--and it's a bet with a ticking time bomb attached to it.
DAN DICKER
Oil's Endless Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Oil to Secure Our Economy
What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
Rolling Stone, August 24, 2006
Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
MASON COOLEY
City Aphorisms
Whoever controls oil controls much more than oil.
JOHN MCCAIN
speech, June 17, 2008
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.
GOLDA MEIR
New York Times, June 1973
I think Arctic drilling is insane. I think that countries around the world would be very well advised to put restrictions on drilling for oil in the Arctic ocean.
AL GORE
The Guardian, July 16, 2015
Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, February 21, 2012
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.
GERALD R. FORD
speech, January 26, 1974
Such, though they waste the midnight oil,
In dull, minute, perplexing toil,
Not understanding, do no good,
Nor can do harm, not understood.
ROBERT LLOYD
"A Dialogue Between the Author and His Friend", Poems
Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
JIMMY CARTER
televised speech, April 18, 1977
Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it! Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.
BILL MAHER
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden
Strange, strange are the dynamics of oil and the ways of oilmen.
THOMAS PYNCHON
Gravity's Rainbow
Before there is wine or there is oil, the grape must be trodden and the olive must be pressed.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
The oil industry says that if they are allowed to drill more, they can create a million jobs. Of course, most of those jobs would be cleaning oil off of ducks.
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan, September 7, 2011