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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have all the time in the world with oil. We have to use oil while it makes sense to do so.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil picture now owned by the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, called 'Hark! the Lark.'
- Heat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the U.S., the primary interest is our continued access to Saudi Arabian oil in adequate quantities... at an acceptable political as well as economic price.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.
- Contracts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.
- Friendly
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of such energy became apparent.
- Fields
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iran has attacked oil fields and shot down a U.S. drone - all while we stood by.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
To detoxify my whole body, I'm a massive fan of dumping an entire wad of Epsom salts into the bath with a couple of drops of lavender or sage oil.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
- Fats
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oil companies have played a role in suppressing the development of alternative fuels.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strongly support the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and favor expanding offshore drilling to make our nation less dependent on foreign oil.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the dollar goes down relative to other currencies, the price of wheat, corn, rice and oil all go up in dollar terms.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a result, they have developed a strongly pro-Azerbaijan position.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money - this results in extremism.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oil your hair and take a head massage as often as possible for better blood circulation.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
- First Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
- Fuel Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.
- Gas Prices
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- Nov 07, 2020
When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
- Big Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that make Korean food delicious are garlic, ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, chili powder, and chili paste. They make anything delicious.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark's GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about what's going down my sink. So I won't pour oil down my sink. I won't - if I'm cleaning a pan, I'll wipe it and bin because I've seen - I've been down sewers.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.
- Mature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every dollar added to the price of oil weakens America and strengthens her enemies.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is that the automobile companies are not independent entities capable of pursuing their own interests. Rather, they are owned and controlled by organizations that are much more heavily invested in oil.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.
- Dwight
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it is a relatively clean-burning fuel. It has a CO2 footprint, but it has no particulates. It has none of the other emissions elements that are of concern to public health that other forms of power-generation fuels do have: coal, fuel oil, others.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.
- Nov 07, 2020
Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.
- Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf, it's all first person there.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.
- Current State
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daniel Masters is a master of the commodities markets with over 30 years experience. His bitcoin strategy is based on the parallels he sees from the oil industry in 1999 to the current state of bitcoin.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020