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. – Robert Zubrin
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. – Ron Klein
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. – Russ Carnahan
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. – Rex Tillerson
In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon. – Peter Coyote
First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated. – Peter DeFazio
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. – Rosa DeLauro
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
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. – Raul Grijalva
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
About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it. – Peter DeFazio
Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources. – Robert Zubrin
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
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. – Paul Mellon
The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa. – Wesley Clark
Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected. – Sylvia Earle
We can’t allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers… We must do what we can to fix this problem. – Stephanie Herseth
If deep-frying catfish, try a dredge of seasoned flour and cornmeal and add some bacon fat to the oil. – Tom Douglas
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. – Tim Holden
Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner – methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide – it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal. – Thomas Friedman
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. – Sherwood Boehlert
Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells. – Thomas Frank
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. – T. Boone Pickens
Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil. – Yotam Ottolenghi