Famous Quotes & Sayings

An explosion in a coal mine has been compared to being in the barrel of a shotgun. It's going to expel outward from where the ignition occurs.

Energy up on a day-to-day basis is a factor. Crude is approaching $70 a barrel and natural gas is up too.

Jim Carter

Each truck carries about 400 tons of material and we get about 200 barrels of oil from that.

Five, six years ago, Venezuela was producing 3 million barrels a day. Now, it's closer to 2 million.

Jim Taylor

Folks know Cracker Barrel for comfort foods, the fire place, the rocking chairs and nostalgic candy.

Productivity did set the tone, and now oil's moved back up slightly, but it doesn't seem to be spiking. As a group, consumers and traders, we're getting used to the idea of $60 a barrel oil.

Production in the Gulf has yet to recover and the trouble in Nigeria shows no signs of easing. We are missing about 1 million barrels of output.

At 70 dollars per barrel governments seem prepared to act.

At $41.29 per proven barrel and $111 per 1,000 barrels a day production, the price more than doubles recent deals. Clearly this is a strategic move.

Cosmetic? You are talking about quotas. But when it comes to production, OPEC responds to the market. We are producing 2 million barrels a day more.

Crude stocks fell by 0.749 million barrels per day, which disappointed some traders who were looking for the SPR releases to have a positive impact on inventories.

Crude stocks are misleading. Yes, they are the highest since 1999 but keep in mind that we are now producing 1 million barrels a day less in the U.S. and refinery runs are up by 1.2 million barrels a day. In that context crude stocks are not high.

Crude stocks are expected to have fallen by 600,000 barrels over the week while distillate stocks are expected to be up by 1.7 million barrels.

Crude oil is staying near $70 a barrel right now. With all of the unrest in the Middle East and the new threats with Iran, all these things just keep gas prices high.

David Robinson

This acquisition represents an exceptional opportunity for us to increase shareholder value. We are starting with around 40 barrels of output a day, but with considerable potential to boost production.

They make oil and they own oil, and the price of oil has gone up. Every barrel of oil they make is worth more.

You're cleaning a river. You're putting $200, $300, $400 million into cleaning this river. What a win for the community. We're going to have a clean river. But on the banks, 25 feet in, we have these barrel fields and the only intention is to cap it.

Hans Blix

You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.

They are extracting 500,000 barrels per day, but plan on reaching 2 million barrels in 2008.

This move will not solve the real problem - the oil cannot be refined. Even before the loss of 1.8 million barrels per day of output refineries were struggling to keep up with demand. So increasing the crude supply will not overcome this bottleneck.

There isn't the spare capacity to make up for the missing production in the Gulf of Mexico. OPEC used to have 4 to 5 million barrels of spare capacity. That's down to about 1.5 million barrels a day this year.

Before Katrina, the system was already so tight that the worst-case scenario was for a disruption that took 250,000 barrels of capacity out of the picture. That would have been considered a major jolt,

Even though oil futures are flat this morning and have remained around (the) $63 to $64 a barrel level, concerns remain over the prospect of the combination of higher inflation and borrowing costs.

John McCallum

Beyond the 450,000 barrels of (crude) oil per day is the much more important point that this is the future of the global economy and it's fundamentally in our interests that we become a part of it,

Some easy money has been made by people in energy stocks but I don't see anything on the horizon that's going to cause oil to go back to $20 a barrel any time soon since there is a global supply/demand imbalance,

Oil prices are high at $30 a barrel. The U.S. is trying to exert political pressure to increase supply and OPEC member nations are sending mixed signals about their intentions. We have a very volatile market here. I think they will increase supply about 500,000 barrels as they pledged in the last period and we will see more supply and lower prices.

Oil, oil, oil, the price of oil fell back below $US60 a barrel after some bearish inventory numbers. That was the catalyst that spurred some buying in the stocks.

Oil, oil, oil, the price of oil fell back below $60 a barrel after some bearish inventory numbers. That was the catalyst that spurred some buying in the stocks.

Oil below $60 a barrel grabbed folks' attention.

Oil at $75 a barrel implies a lot of geopolitical risks and we're probably getting back to something a little more supply-and-demand oriented, which is healthy for the market.

I wanted to go soft in that situation, give him a different look and then get right back to it. But he was feeling good with the cutter. It jammed (Lee) pretty good. I don't think he had a real great swing on it. He just happened to get the barrel on it.

Abraham Lincoln

Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

It was a little cutter that was up and out over the plate. I just tried to get the barrel on it and put it into play.