Prospecting for oil is
Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art… The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance Everette Lee DeGolyer
Oil Industry
We thank those Senators,
We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America’s energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to … Read more
In sectors like energy,
In sectors like energy, I haven’t been arguing for more spending per se; I’ve been arguing that it doesn’t make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that’s mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future. Barack Obama
The majority of America’s
The majority of America’s colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them…. Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, … Read more
Part of what the
Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging. Anna Lappe
In my humble opinion,
In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell. Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari
We drilled in the
We drilled in the right place – we were simply 30 million years too late Richard Bray
The people of the
The people of the United States don’t recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy. Ray L. Hunt
The oil industry has
The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science. Al Gore
The use of solar
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. Ralph Nader