New Rule: Oil companies must stop with the advertisements implying they're friends of the environment. "At Exxon Mobil, we care about a thriving wildlife." Please--the only thing an oil executive has in common with a seagull is they'd both steal fren...
The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development. Continuing wealth from the single commodi...
Accident - A statistical inevitability. Some nuclear power plants are built on fault lines, but ever mine, dam, oil rig, and waste dump is founded upon a tacit acceptance of the worst-case scenario. One a long enough timeline, everything that can go ...
Liberia got Petroleum (Oil): The problem of development lies in good leadership and great communication. Some of our leaders want to turn the country's oil company into the Gaddafi regime of Libya that they could rule Liberia and their sons and grand...
Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
I have motor oil running through my veins.
Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water.
Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.
I fought fire with oil.
I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
We need to move away from oil, period.
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.
Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of...
Oliver Larrabee: I can never remember that garage girl's name. Linus Larrabee: Sabrina. Oliver Larrabee: Sabrina! What right has a chauffeur got to call his daughter Sabrina? Linus Larrabee: What would you suggest... Ethel?
Trapper John: But Hawkeye, that man has five times the man power to draw than we do. Hawkeye Pierce: Sure, so we get ourselves a ringer, right? We get Henry to apply, making a specific application for a neurosurgeon. He asks for Dr. Oliver Harmon Jon...
The cliche is dead poetry.
Dubai was founded on trade, not oil.
