Petroleum Quotes

Petroleum Quote of the day

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it.

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.

You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

Turkeys energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.

Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources.

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.