Noam Chomsky Quotes

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating tumult of recent decades, reliably pumping out its roughly 10 million barrels a day like Bossy the cow in America's oil import barn.

The Persian Gulf region would have zero strategic importance were it not for the oil.

Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.

The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.

America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency failed - especially amidst a world of heightened resource competition.

The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.

The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.

We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

We should be sending our energy dollars to the Mid-West, not to the Middle East.

The United States must face the uncomfortable fact that its goal of “energy independence”--- a phrase that has become a mantra since it was first articulated by Richard Nixon four weeks after the 1973 embargo was put in place--- is increasingly at odds with reality.

America is addicted to oil which is often imported from the most unstable part of the world.

American oil operations are, for all practical purposes, instruments of our foreign policy.

The world’s dependence on Gulf oil will last for at least another generation.

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

Tar sands are attractive, but like biofuels, they will never replace Middle East oil.

I'm only interested in Libya if we keep the oil. If we don't keep the oil, I'm not interested.

When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.