Oil Quotes

Russia is a gas station posing as a country.

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

Energy Independence

The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it. The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.

The Diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Oil is what this country runs on. You call it monopoly. I call it enterprise.

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

A drop of oil is worth a drop of blood.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

The Mexican oil and gas monopoly, Pemex, literally fuels corruption.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

This country has been economically successful because of cheap energy and cheap labor and we are never going to have these again.

When I came into the oil there was chaos. I brought order…. It was done the way it was because that was the way it had to be done.

Usama bin Laden feels like Iraq is a part of this War on Terror. He has made it clear that he would like for us to leave before Iraq can defend itself or govern itself and sustain itself, so that he could have a safe haven from which to launch further attacks, a safe haven from which to topple modern governments, a safe haven from which to, you know, be able to get a hold of oil resources.

Many of the wars this century were about oil, but those of the next century will be over water

We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.

That whole thing has been overstated by environmentalists. First of all, what is it, rocks and snow? C'mon, what is that, you want that? Go to Canada my friend. Believe me, rocks and snow are overrated. I've seen otters - they look better covered in oil.

Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

Asia is rising economically - and is thirsty for oil. The price pressures on oil and oil price shocks, due to Asia's economic rise, mean that all steps made now to reduce oil dependence will protect us from pain and volatility later.

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

I helped make Mexico...safe for American oil interests. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank …. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.