Quotes of: Oil-companies Keyword

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

George William Norris

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.

Henry Flynt

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

Joan Rivers

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

John Salazar

If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?

Jon Stewart

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

Dick Gephardt

According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.

Josh Fox

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

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

Jay Inslee

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

Jim Lee

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

Dan Lipinski

As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

John Shimkus

Jim: I touched it! I touched it! I felt the heat! I can taste it in my mouth, oil and cordite!

Empire of the Sun

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Ed Markey

Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.

Salva Kiir Mayardit

Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.

Thomas Frank

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

Vicente Fox

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

Sylvia Earle

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Isoroku Yamamoto

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

James Lovelock

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

Martin Feldstein