OIL QUOTES II
quotations about oil
Officials at BP have filed for permits to drill for oil again in the Gulf of Mexico. They say the oil is easier to find than ever because its mostly on top of the water.
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan, 2011
If it's not one god it's another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust.
VICTOR ROBERT LEE
Performance Anomalies
My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.
JEAN PAUL GETTY
As I See It
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
British Petroleum said today that if this spill gets worse, they may have to start drilling for water.
DAVID LETTERMAN
Late Night with David Letterman, 2010
Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
Florence of Arabia
There is earth below your earth, a deep room where
gas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow blood
through a body.
MATHEW HENDERSON
The Lease
I trimm'd my lamp, consum'd the midnight oil.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Elegy XI
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.
WALLACE PRATT
Oil in the Earth
If Europe's example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don't drive them too much.
PAUL KRUGMAN
"Stranded in Suburbia", New York Times, May 19, 2008
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
Nor watch the wasting of the midnight oil.
JOHN GAY
Fables
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.
GEORGE MONBIOT
Monbiot, December 14, 2009
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
GEOFF TIBBALLS
The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
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
The birthplace of the modern oil industry is commonly considered to be Titusville, Pennsylvania. There Edwin Drake drilled his first modern oil well in 1859. However, oil had been produced in Europe and Russia for several decades before. It was in the United States that the real oil rush was born, where it was distilled into kerosene to use in lighting. Oil was also used as a lubricant for machinery in the growing industrial manufacturing sector. Gasoline, as it happens, was an unwanted by-product of refining at the time due to its volatility.
RAULI PARANEN
The World After Cheap Oil
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
Now they're saying all this terrorist activity could lead to higher oil prices. When asked why, the oil companies said, "Cause everything leads to higher oil prices." In fact, the price of crude oil could hit $80 a barrel. That's not crude -- that's obscene.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, 2006
Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.
WILLIAM TAMMEUS
The Globe and Mail, 1991
To ask the question "What is oil?" is almost like asking "What is love?"
JOHN GUNTHER
Inside U.S.A.