OIL QUOTES III
quotations about oil
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Why are politicians so eager to pin the blame for oil prices on speculators? Because it lets them believe that we don't have to adapt to a world of expensive gas.
PAUL KRUGMAN
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"Fuels on the Hill", New York Times, June 27, 2008
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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
British Petroleum said today that if this spill gets worse, they may have to start drilling for water.
DAVID LETTERMAN
Late Night with David Letterman, 2010
Pardon me, ye that give the midnight oil,
To learned cares, or philosophic toil.
WILLIAM COWPER
"Retirement"
In Louisiana, BP claims that it's making progress with the leaking oil in the Gulf. They're working on a plan to heat the Gulf up to 600 degrees and use it to fry chicken.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, 2010
Oil companies are nationalities. This plane oughta say EXXON on the side instead of U. S. Navy.
JAMES W. BLINN
The Aardvark Is Ready For War