OIL QUOTES III

quotations about oil

Oil quote

By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.

ALBERT MARRIN

Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives


In Louisiana, BP claims that it's making progress with the leaking oil in the Gulf. They're working on a plan to heat the Gulf up to 600 degrees and use it to fry chicken.

JIMMY KIMMEL

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, 2010

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If you look at humanity's per-capita energy use today, it's as thought each human being has twenty-three servants for him or her, every hour of every day.

LEIF WENAR

Blood Oil


Oil creates the illusion of a completely changed life, life without work, life for free. Oil is a resource that anaesthetises thought, blurs vision, corrupts.

RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI

Shah of Shahs


Oil companies are nationalities. This plane oughta say EXXON on the side instead of U. S. Navy.

JAMES W. BLINN

The Aardvark Is Ready For War


Why are politicians so eager to pin the blame for oil prices on speculators? Because it lets them believe that we don't have to adapt to a world of expensive gas.

PAUL KRUGMAN

"Fuels on the Hill", New York Times, June 27, 2008

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