Oil Quotes (584 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Edward Zwick
„It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.“
― Edward Zwick ―
Picture of quotation author Vladimir Zhirinovsky
„I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.“
Picture of quotation author Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
„We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.“
Picture of quotation author Fareed Zakaria
„One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.“
― Fareed Zakaria ―
Picture of quotation author Fareed Zakaria
„Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.“
― Fareed Zakaria ―
Picture of quotation author Fareed Zakaria
„The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.“
― Fareed Zakaria ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel Yergin
„The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.“
― Daniel Yergin ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel Yergin
„If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.“
― Daniel Yergin ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel Yergin
„A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.“
― Daniel Yergin ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel Yergin
„But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.“
― Daniel Yergin ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel Yergin
„But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.“
― Daniel Yergin ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel Yergin
„The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.“
― Daniel Yergin ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel Yergin
„Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.“
― Daniel Yergin ―
Picture of quotation author Isoroku Yamamoto
„Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.“
Picture of quotation author Ron Wyden
„The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world.“
― Ron Wyden ―
Picture of quotation author Ron Wyden
„More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay more for oil.“
― Ron Wyden ―
Picture of quotation author Ron Wyden
„I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.“
― Ron Wyden ―
Picture of quotation author Ron Wyden
„The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.“
― Ron Wyden ―
Picture of quotation author Ron Wyden
„Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.“
― Ron Wyden ―
Picture of quotation author Ron Wyden
„Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.“
― Ron Wyden ―

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