Quotes tagged ‘oil’

“Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we can no longer save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. So we have not come here to beg the world leaders to ca…”

— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.org

“You were the squeaky wheel so you got all the oil.”

— Matthew Weiner, Terri Baker, Amy Poehler, imdb.com

“Hayley: What happened to the land of the free? These people have the right to be here. Stan: People? They're parasites sucking on the rich blood of America. And we need that blood to shed for oil.”

— Mike Barker, Stan Smith (voice), Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“Dennis: No, I'm not going to talk in a southern accent. It's bad enough that you wore this stupid 'disguise.' Charlie: But we're oil men! We would have southern accents. Dennis: Yeah, but we don't need bolo ties and stupid hats.”

— Charlie Day, Sonny Lee, Patrick Walsh, Dennis Reynolds, Glenn Howerton, imdb.com

“Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.”

— Ariel Sharon, en.wikiquote.org

“By burning coal, oil and gas, our civilization is exhaling carbon dioxide much faster than Earth can absorb it. So, CO2 is building up in the atmosphere. The planet is heating up.”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.”

— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com

“Whats the hardest part of making vegetable oil? Removing the wheelchairs”

— Bluedot55, reddit.com

“FYI: Crude Oil is just as “natural” as Natural Gas. They both derive from buried, long-dead, decomposed plants & animals.””

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. We can remain the world's leading importer of oil, or we can become the world's leading exporter of clean energy. We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural…”

— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov