Petroleum Quotes - page 2

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us. (Veerappa Moily)
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? View quote
Dick Gregory
Mattei was convinced that Italy, a poor and defeated country, nonetheless possessed notable energy deposits of petroleum in its subsoil, and he was also aware that the oil business, even if there were not really resources inside the country, was an important business which one could not stay out of and in which one could not be at the mercy of the big guys. So Mattei's program was to try to use all available means to exploit the country's energy resources, and if this were not possible, to seek international accords with coun¬tries which had these energy resources, so that they could be used by Italy in order to become a partner of the major pow¬ers, and not be at their mercy. View quote
Nico Perrone
Our vision is for a country that grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. It is for a country that no longer has to import petroleum products and develop a lucrative petrochemical industry. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen. View quote
James Baker
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. Atlast, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. Whencompletely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. Itwas 'Asmell of petroleum prevailsthroughout'. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
"It is not 30% of petroleum exploration reaources. It is 30% of 25%. Or 30% of 30%. Therefore, it is no 39%. It is between 7,5% and a little more, 12,5%. So, it is not about 30 %”. View quote
Dilma Rousseff
With the socialist ethic giving way to private greed, corruption assumed virulent new forms in the post-Communist nations. Officials high and low are on the take, including the police. The Russian security minister calculated that one-third of Russian nickel shipped out of the country was stolen. Among those enjoying "staggering profits" from this plunder were Shell Oil and British Petroleum (Washington Post, 2/2/93). In April 1992, the chairman of Russia's central bank admitted that at least $20 billion had been illegally taken out of the country and deposited in Western banks (Nation, 4/19/93). View quote
Michael Parenti