Oil Security Quotes

A commitment in Iraq was inevitable. We had to establish a base at Basra, and control that port to safeguard Persian oil in case of need.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

The United States is pursuing a series of goals (spreading democracy, asserting its hegemony, securing oil supplies) that are ultimately incompatible.

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

I strongly support the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and favor expanding offshore drilling to make our nation less dependent on foreign oil.

How the United States chose to deal with its growing reliance on foreign oil would determine its future.

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

Safety and certainty in oil, lie in variety and variety alone.

The issue is: $1 trillion or $2 trillion is a lot of money. If our objective is to have stability in the Middle East, secure oil, or extend democracy, you can do a lot of democracy buying for this sum. To put it in context: The whole world spends $50 billion a year on foreign aid.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

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.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.