OIL QUOTES III

quotations about oil

Oil quote

Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.

WILLIAM TAMMEUS

The Globe and Mail, 1991


The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

GEORGE MONBIOT

Monbiot, December 14, 2009


Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism

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Oil creates the illusion of a completely changed life, life without work, life for free. Oil is a resource that anaesthetises thought, blurs vision, corrupts.

RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI

Shah of Shahs


You know how you can tell if a gas station is price-gouging? If the sign says "Open".

JAY LENO

Tonight Show, 2007

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Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.

THOMAS SOWELL

Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy