"Petroleum" Quotes . Top 28 Short Quotes About "Petroleum"

"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."

--- Al Gore

#Consumed #Source #Balance

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

--- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Modern #Petroleum #Agriculture

"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."

--- Alexander von Humboldt

#Rocks #Action #Primitive

"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."

--- Ali Babacan

#Turkeys #Bills #Renewable Energy

"Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line."

--- Anthony Weiner

#Viewers #Lines #Behalf

"I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum."

--- Wole Soyinka

#Oil #Nigeria #Convinced

"A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming."

--- William J. Clinton

#Oil #Significant Numbers #Decades

"We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt."

--- Ben Stein

#Dollars #Heirlooms #Lifestyle

"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. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was 'A smell of petroleum prevails throughout'."

--- Bertrand Russell

#Lasts #Smell #Faded

"A smell of petroleum prevails throughout."

--- Bertrand Russell

#Smell #Petroleum

"That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true."

--- Wendell Berry

#May #Nevertheless #Absurd

"Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation."

--- Wendell Berry

#Oil #Renewable Energy #Decades

"There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To have a growth economy based on a declining fuel supply is bound to be stressful."

--- Wendell Berry

#Economy #Bad Things #Petroleum

"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."

--- Wendell Berry

#Courses #Diversity #Petroleum

"Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else."

--- Bill Moyers

#Congress #Corporations #White House

"Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to BP. Who's company is that? British Petroleum, isn't it? I suppose that is not bad. I have to tell that British Petroleum's capitalization is significantly related to the fact that it owns more than 19 percent of Rosneft, which has vast oil reserves both in Russia and abroad. This has its impact on the company's stability as well."

--- Vladimir Putin

#Oil #Reserves #Company

"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy."

--- Virgil Goode

#Alternatives #Source #Efficient

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

--- Veerappa Moily

#People #Austerity #Petroleum

"I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own joy, and that that is not distinct from pleasure and fulfillment of desires. So I ask: What makes me feel alive? What is the expression of my inner wild? What would really feel good? What if what makes me feel alive leads me toward the deeper joys, which are found in generosity and service, in creating things that are beautiful to me? Maybe the world needs more of that. How many petroleum company executives are doing their work because it's beautiful to them? Not very many, I bet."

--- Charles Eisenstein

#Generosity #Beautiful #World

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

--- Terry Pratchett

#Correctness #Said #Political Correctness

"Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production."

--- Christopher Flavin

#Oil #Productions #Decline

"The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less than it is, and the value of coal was considerably less than it is, there would be much less debate about this."

--- Chuck Klosterman

#Climate Change #Values #Industry

"Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe."

--- Stewart Udall

#Oil #Each Day #Pounds

"In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure."

--- Dan Simmons

#Meat #Units #Human Beings

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

--- Dan Simmons

#Economy #Petroleum

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

--- Simone Weil

#Peace #Anti War #War

"The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible."

--- Daniel Yergin

#Oil #Barrels #Industry

"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."

--- Daryl Hannah

#Nice #Used #Petroleum

28 "Petroleum" Quotes