OIL QUOTES III
quotations about oil
I trimm'd my lamp, consum'd the midnight oil.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Elegy XI
Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.
WILLIAM TAMMEUS
The Globe and Mail, 1991
Now they're saying all this terrorist activity could lead to higher oil prices. When asked why, the oil companies said, "Cause everything leads to higher oil prices." In fact, the price of crude oil could hit $80 a barrel. That's not crude -- that's obscene.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, 2006
Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.
THOMAS SOWELL
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
There is earth below your earth, a deep room where
gas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow blood
through a body.
MATHEW HENDERSON
The Lease
If you look at humanity's per-capita energy use today, it's as thought each human being has twenty-three servants for him or her, every hour of every day.
LEIF WENAR
Blood Oil