Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Mustaine

There's always that oil and water thing going on, ... You don't know if people are going to congeal. Fortunately it's been great.

Michael Mandelbaum

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

Debt deflation is when there's less money that people have to spend out of their paychecks on goods and services, because they're paying the FIRE sector. Oil going down is a function of the supply and demand of oil in the market. It's a separate phenomenon.

You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low prices over time aren't caused by speculation. That's oversupply, mainly by Saudi Arabia flooding the market with low-priced oil to discourage rival oil producers, whether it's Russian oil or American fracking.

Ramez Naam

Just like you could dump oil into the Cuyahoga in the 60s and let someone else foot the bill, today you can pump CO2 into the atmosphere and let the whole world foot the bill.

Ralph Nader

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

We've got, not only the Alaskan pipeline is not being built, and that oil, Canada may decide to sell it to China, and we may lose that oil forever.

Shay Mitchell

Coconut oil has always been my favorite. Any dry spots I have I'll put coconut oil on them because it's a natural ingredient and it works better than anything.

Michael Pollan

The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.

Smedley Butler

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

Mercer Reynolds

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

Norm Coleman

Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that.

John S. Watson

First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

Sherwood Boehlert

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

Sherwood Boehlert

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

Sherwood Boehlert

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

Sherwood Boehlert

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

Nigella Lawson

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

Nicole Ari Parker

I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.

Miranda Kerr

I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.

Marilyn vos Savant

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

Plautus

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]

Peter DeFazio

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

Peter DeFazio

There is no free market in oil.

Meat Loaf

There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

Maureen Johnson

Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

Matthew Henry

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Michael Moore

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

Michio Kaku

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

Michio Kaku

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.