Oil Drilling Quotes:

If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.

- Woody Harrelson

topic: Cutting, Oil, Forests, Drills, Oil Drilling

From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

- Rick Perry

source: "Perry: Oil spill may be 'act of God'". Rick Perry's speech at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, www.politico.com. May 3, 2010.

topic: Stupid, Republican, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Stupid Republican

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

- Jim Ramstad

topic: Oil, Finals, Way, Arctic, Oil Drilling

When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

- Alex Trebek

topic: College, Oil, California, Oil Drilling, Taft

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "Rush: 'I’m Just Noting the Timing Here'" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

topic: Stupid, Oil, Way, Oil Drilling, Blowing Up

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

- Sherwood Boehlert

topic: Taken, Oil, Firsts, Oil Drilling, Drilling

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

- Lois Capps

topic: Years, America, Energy, Oil Drilling, Drilling

Barack Obama now says he is open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind.

- Jay Leno

topic: Talking, Oil, Mind, Offshore, Oil Drilling

A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.

- Richard Jeni

source: "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

topic: Running, Hypocrite, Gay, Pandas, Oil Drilling

Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package.

- Russ Feingold

topic: Years, Oil, Opening Up, Oil Drilling, Drilling