Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Pelosi

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

Christina Romer

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

George Packer

Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

George Osborne

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

Jim Costa

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

Christopher Buckley

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

George Orwell

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Jeremy Clarkson

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.

We're in a world of triple-digit oil prices for the foreseeable future,

Jeff Goodell

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Jeff Goodell

Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

Jeff Goodell

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

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

Golda Meir

Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.

Golda Meir

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

Giovanni Bisignani

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

Ian Somerhalder

I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.

Hugo Chavez

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

Hugo Chavez

The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.

Hugo Chavez

Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.

Gary Miller

A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations

Gary Miller

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China

Gary Larson

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

Everything you see here the paints, batteries, oil are all being recycled.

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Bill Richardson

Oil prices right now and prices at the pump -- there is no correlation.

The supply of oil is still ongoing; most people feel there won't be a disruption, so they're taking profit now, especially after Friday's sharp increase.

Back in February, when we projected $55 oil, oil prices were falling. We projected a weaker price over the summer.

Charlie Miller

This was the first test of the president's pledge to end our oil addiction. At the rate we're going, we're not going to get out of rehab.

Bernie Sanders

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

Peter Bergen

We're paying some kind of 'fear premium' for the price of oil right now.

Jay Nixon

There's not a lot we can do about the big oil companies, refineries and pipelines,

Sugar is going ballistic because of the oil price.