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• Iraq is not about oil.

  Bobby Ray Inman

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• Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn’t happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

  Bob Graham

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  Tags in Oil, Today

• Big Oil is a club, and they’ll do everything to keep me out.

  T. Boone Pickens

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• We can’t allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers… We must do what we can to fix this problem.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

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• Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

  Tim Holden

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  Tags in World, Oil

• About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

  Sherwood Boehlert

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• Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

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• The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy – technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

  Sherwood Boehlert

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• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation’s supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  Gary Miller

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  Tags in United States, Depending, Foreign, Oil, Sources

• Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

  Gary Miller

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  Tags in Energy, Oil, Producing, Countries

• In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.

  Gary Miller

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• Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

  Gary Miller

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• More than gold and oil and diamonds girls, we need dem everyday.

  Sean Paul

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• Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.

  Rob Corddry

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  Tags in Pure, Oil, Form

• You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

  Emeril Lagasse

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• I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

  Richard Linklater

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• Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.

  Raul Grijalva

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  Tags in Automobiles, Oil

• The oil can is mightier than the sword.

  Everett McKinley Dirksen

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• I think within a couple of weeks, (gas) prices will revert to pre-Katrina levels. But I also believe oil prices will go up again.

  A. F. Alhajji

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you’ll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

  Neal Barnard

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  Tags in Oil, Fat