Quotes on Oil

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

Author: John Amos

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

Author: Hassanal Bolkiah

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

Author: Barbara Castle

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

Author: Clarence Clemons

Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.

Author: Rob Corddry

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

Author: Jon Corzine

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

Author: Peter DeFazio

There is no free market in oil.

Author: Peter DeFazio

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Author: Everett Dirksen

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

Author: Christopher Dodd

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

Author: Pete Domenici

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

Author: Pete Domenici

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

Author: Henry Flynt

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

Author: J. Getty

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

Author: Virgil Goode

Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.

Author: Paul Hawken

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

Author: Stephanie Herseth

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

Author: Tim Holden

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

Author: Edward Hopper

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.

Author: Jay Inslee

It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

Author: Ron Klein

By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East.

Author: Anthony Lake

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

Author: Richard Linklater

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

Author: James Lovelock

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Author: George MacDonald

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Author: Gary Miller

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

Author: Gary Miller

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Author: Edvard Munch

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

Author: Paul Newman

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Author: Ovid

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

Author: Major Owens

If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

Author: T. Pickens

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

Author: Rodrigo Rato

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

Author: Joan Rivers

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

Author: Ken Salazar

The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing.

Author: Jason Statham

But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.

Author: Daniel Yergin

I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.

Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky