20 Petroleum Quotes for You to Enjoy

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. James Buchan

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Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. Simone Weil

Conflict Cause More Likely Than Wheat International Petroleum

Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer. George M. Church

Beer Simple New Making Straightforward Should Petroleum

I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on. Harold Hamm

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To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. Harry Houdini

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When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen. James Baker

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. James Buchan

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Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe. Jason Chaffetz

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Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail. John Hoeven

Way Trucks Safer Safest Than Far Transport Petroleum Rail

We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds. Jose Ramos-Horta

On the question of preserving public lands, Trump replies that our elected officials have spent too long rewarding 'special interests,' by which I assume he doesn't mean petroleum companies and the Bundy family. Lawrence M. Krauss

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

Face Nation Reliance Petroleum Need

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum. Marcy Kaptur

Believe Our Vulnerability Imported Chief America Dependence Strategic Petroleum

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces. Michael Ignatieff

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The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. Peter Diamandis

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In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil. Robert Zubrin

Game Business World Our Ran Advantage American Oil Petroleum

We need to drastically reduce the importance of the petroleum game itself by enacting flex-fuel-vehicle legislation that will open the transportation market to fuels derived from non-petroleum sources. Robert Zubrin

Game Will Market Drastically Open Importance Reduce Sources Itself Legislation Fuels Derived Transportation Petroleum Need

I wanted to study to be a petroleum engineer and get my engineering degree and fight in the UFC at the same time. But unfortunately, to be the best I can be at the UFC, I needed all focus to be there, and more focus, also. Sage Northcutt

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