Oil Industry Quotes:

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Fun, Oil, Earth Day, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Running, Oil, Waiting, Hydrogen Fuel, Solar Energy

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

topic: Oil, Judging, Mind, Oil Industry

Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

- Everette Lee DeGolyer

topic: Art, Past, Men, Oil Industry, Past Present

Be the change you want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

- Golda Meir

source: Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

topic: Humorous, Order, Years, Israeli, Oil Industry

Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

- William Barrett

topic: Dirty, Oil, California, Oil Industry

One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

- Kristin Bauer van Straten

topic: Oil, Dollars, Lessons, Stomping, Oil Industry

In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell.

- Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

topic: Farewell, Humble, Oil, Oil Industry, Peak Oil

The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.

- Ray L. Hunt

topic: Wise, Country, Oil, Oil Industry, World Economy

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

topic: Oil, Giving, Environmental, Misguided, Oil Industry

We drilled in the right place - we were simply 30 million years too late

- Richard Bray

topic: Years, Too Late, Oil Industry

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

- Anna Lappe

source: "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview With Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

topic: Oil, Trying, Doe, Oil Industry, Food Industry

The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.

- Mark Levin

source: Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

topic: Running, Government, Essence, Paying Taxes, Oil Industry

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

- Gwyn Morgan

topic: Oil, Investing, Ceo, Oil And Gas, Oil Field

It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!

- Margaret Atwood

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Punishment, Cities, Oil, Oil Industry

At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

- Joe Greene

topic: Years, Oil, Canada, Oil Industry

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

- Wallace Pratt

topic: Men, Oil, Mind, Oil Industry

The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task. ... No oil company gets as excited about the customers in its own backyard as about the oil in the Sahara Desert. ... But the truth is, it seems to me, that the industry begins with the needs of the customer for its products. From that primal position its definition moves steadily back stream to areas of progressively lesser importance until it finally comes to rest at the search for oil.

- Theodore Levitt

topic: Moving, Technology, Oil, Mass Production, Sahara

A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry hit geological boundaries, which meant that it could no longer maintain the historic growth rates in petroleum extraction.

- Michael Kumhof

topic: Keys, Oil, Impact, Oil Industry, Petroleum

Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Determination, Nice, Hard Work, Oil Industry

There is no free market for oil.

- T. Boone Pickens

topic: Oil, Free Market, Oil Industry, Opec

The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier.

- Joseph Stiglitz

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: War, Oil, Iraq, Global Economy, Oil Industry

Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

- Mark Levin

source: Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

topic: Government, Electric Power, Oil, Lumber, Oil Industry

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

- Al Gore

source: ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

topic: Oil, Climate, Building, Oil Industry

I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy [the oil industry], that they are being watched.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Thinking, Oil, Messages, Oil Industry

Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.

- Ross Gelbspan

topic: Real, Names, Oil, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Responsibility, Marketing, Bucks, Oil Industry, Chief Executives

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

- Ron Wyden

topic: Oil, Administration, Helping, Oil Industry

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

- Jeff Bingaman

topic: Oil, Too Much, Proposal, Oil Industry, Tax Breaks

The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Photography, Moving, Thinking, Oil Industry, Color Photography

In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.

- Barack Obama

topic: Oil, Politics, Energy, Oil Industry

Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.

- Jim Atkinson

topic: Religious, Horse, Attachment, Oil Industry, Material Possessions

The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

- James Frey

topic: Cities, Oil, Clouds, Oil Industry, Pollution Control

We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

- Carl Pope

topic: America, Oil, Pressure, Oil Industry

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

- J. Paul Getty

topic: Business, Rights, Earth, Oil Industry, Meek