OIL QUOTES III

quotations about oil

Oil quote

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


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

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In Louisiana, BP claims that it's making progress with the leaking oil in the Gulf. They're working on a plan to heat the Gulf up to 600 degrees and use it to fry chicken.

JIMMY KIMMEL

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, 2010

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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


Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Florence of Arabia


Nor watch the wasting of the midnight oil.

JOHN GAY

Fables

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