I love musk oil. There’s something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

You can’t put money meant for the right course of action in the hands of criminals, rogues and thieves and expect to see positive changes or results.

Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?

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.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it! Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.

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,...

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those...

If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he’s not oiled up enough.

New Rule: America has every right ot bitch about gas prices suddenly shooting up. How could we have known? Oh, wait, there was that teensy, tiny thing about being warned constantly over the last forty...

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

Everybody looks at oil and almost entirely forget that the percentage of jobs the oil sector creates is relatively small compared to the population; the introduction of more sophisticated exploration methods makes it even worse....

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

Taking away coffee from Americans is like taking away oil from the motors.

The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world’s most valuable.

If it’s not one god it’s another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks – serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere.Oil shocks have...

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we...

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

I had a dream about you. You were in the oil business, and I sold icy roads for a living. You didn’t understand who’d buy such a thing, and I said you didn’t understand how...

America experienced its first oil shock. Within days of the cutoff, oil prices rose from $2.90 to $11.65 a barrel; gasoline prices soared from 20 cents to $1.20 a gallon, an all-time high. Across America,...

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

But what my car needs is gas, not memories! How can you make a car go on memories?’B.D. scratched under her Admiral’s hat. ‘What’d you think gas was, girl? ‘Course there’s all sorts of fuel,...

Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in today’s world it’s the fuel that drags economy

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation’s prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.

There is earth below your earth, a deep room wheregas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow bloodthrough a body.

All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting...

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

If I can’t see the bottom, I don’t know how much is left. Why does my love have to be so thick? I suppose because it keeps the engine of your heart running smooth.

It is in our best interest to. . . embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than drag our feet and suffer the costs of becoming growingly dependent...

So when time had begun to run out on Adelia with no really acceptable husband in sight, she’d married money — crude money, button money. She was expected to refine this money, like oil.

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

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese – to the Europeans’ surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to...

The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

I didn’t sign any contracts, and I didn’t see any oil.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell’s argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world’s ugliest and most expensive hydrocarbon, can never be a...

Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not […]. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do,...

Don’t be discouraged when your life boils hot. With just a little more toil, you’ll reap from the soil. More oil to your elbows. Stay awake and make it happen!

Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every day. […] There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we can’t save the world by playing by the rules. Because the...

Ask them, then. …Ask them when there’s no heat in their homes and they’re cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them, when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You want...

Greenlanders’ heart is the environment. You can’t sell your heart for oil.

I’ve never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.