Petroleum Consumption Quotes

Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.