“With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.” WorldEnergyNationsFocusSourceDevelopmentCostDemandCleanOilAround The WorldRisingEfficientOregonEnergy Sources Author:Greg Walden
“The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesEnergyGivenNationsLinesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyWiseIndustryCostLowsBottomOilBottom LineManufacturingGreatest GiftsWorld EconomyOil Industry Author:Ray L. Hunt
“Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.” CostUnionsProfitOilGood TimesAirlineBad Times Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha
“Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.” WellsHelpingClassCostOilFuelGlobal WarmingGasDriversEfficientVehiclePollutionDependenceGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesForeign Oil Author:Carol Browner
“Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs” PeopleShouldTryingGovernmentPayResponsibilityBearsCostWesternOilProducersWelfare Author:Mohammad Khatami
“Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.” IndustryReturnCostGainsCriticalOilEfficiencyReductionRobbingProfitability Author:Giovanni Bisignani
“So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the oil, production will cease no matter what the monetary price may be.” MayLongMatterUsedEnergyGreaterSourceCostNo Matter WhatProductionsOilCeaseMonetaryBarrelsRecoveringOil Production Author:M. King Hubbert
“The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.” WorldStillsTwoLyingMiddleCostThirdsOilEastPrizeMiddle EastLowest Author:Dick Cheney
“As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.” YearsNationsHurtEffectsCostIncreaseOilBillionsDependenceGasolineForeign OilOpec Author:Paul Gillmor
“Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.” ImportantJobsEnergyNaturalHalfMillionsCreationCostBillsProductionsProtectionOilGasEfficiencyProvisionNew JobNatural GasFertilizerGas PricesBlackoutsOil Production Author:Paul Gillmor
“We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.” IfsNeedsLooksDifferentWarWould BeTodayLinesBusinessPayGenerationsMiddleHonestCostBottomOilEastGlobal WarmingMiddle EastBottom LineFuture Generation Author:Ray Anderson
“Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.” ThinkingFirstsSeemsTermCompanyEnemyCarCostFirst TimeOilPermanentFuelElectricFossilsCheaperFossil FuelDisserviceOil CompaniesElectric Car Author:Chris Paine
“Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.” NeedsCompanyIndustryCostScientistClimateClimate ChangeProfitOilDecadesBillionsEnormousAbsurdFuelGasMassivePollutionCarbonCoalFossilsTaxpayersFossil FuelPadsSubsidies Author:Bernie Sanders
“People sometimes are under the impression that finding their property corners should cost as much as changing their oil or blowing out their sprinklers. What they don't realize is that land surveyors are required to stand behind their work for the rest of their lives.” PeopleShouldSometimesRealizingBehindsLandCostFindingsPropertyCornersOilImpressionSurveyorsLand Surveyor Author:Mark Mason
“Availability of the best also is limited in our culture. And it's also extremely expensive. It's ridiculous. A kilogram of rose oil costs me very much. By the time it is shipped here and we pay tariffs, how much more do I have to charge the consumer? And then who could afford to buy it? That is why people sell synthetic rose and end up poisoning themselves. It shouldn't be that way.” PeopleWayEndsCulturePayCostSellsRoseOilRidiculousConsumersExpensivePoisoningAvailabilitySyntheticTariffs Author:Horst Rechelbacher
“When the President is making it harder to mine coal, to use coal, to take advantage of our gas resources, to make it harder to get our oil resources - all those things combine to make our cost of energy higher than it needs to be, and it drives away enterprises from this country. It sends it to places that have lower-cost energy.” NeedsCountryUseEnergyPresidentMinesHigherCostResourcesAdvantageHarderOilEnterpriseGasCoal Author:Mitt Romney
“When you have a transportation system that the price of propellant is essentially negligible something is very wrong. If you look at any other transportation system, a car, a motorcycle, a train, an oil tanker, an airliner, you name it; about a quarter to a third of the operating cost is buying the propellant.” IfsLooksNamesCarCostThirdsTrainOilBuyingQuartersTransportationMotorcycle Author:Burt Rutan
“Oil now, as a result of the Saudi production, is priced so low that there are not going to be new fracking investments made. A lot of companies that have gone into fracking are heavily debt-leveraged, and are beginning to default on their loans. The next wave of defaults that banks are talking about is probably going to be in the fracking industry. When the costs of production are so much more than they can end up getting for the oil, they just stop producing and stop paying their loans.” MadeEndsNextResultsCompanyTalkingGoneIndustryCostLowsInvestmentWaveProductionsDebtOilLoanDefaultSaudisFracking Author:Michael Hudson
“Packaged foods, partially hydrogenated oils and enriched flours are not your friends. Above all, remember this one word: transfats. Avoid it at all costs.” RememberCostOilOne WordFlour Author:Mehmet Oz
“The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.” ShouldRealityBitsEnvironmentCostDegreesRemainsOilDamageExpensiveGasMiningGas PricesIncorporatingExternalitiesUranium MiningMarket Failure Author:Elon Musk
“The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.” StillsEnvironmentCostOilCoalMineralsExtraction Author:Bono
“Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.” SimpleNumbersRight NowCostSellsCustomersDuesOilProducersGeographyPipelineMidwesterners Author:Ron Wyden
“The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world.” WorldStatesEasyUnitedUnited StatesCostCustomersOilProducersAround The WorldCanadaMexicoTransportPipelineGulf Of Mexico Author:Ron Wyden
“The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.” CareFormAnimalEnvironmentCostAccountsWorkersIllnessOilNineHealth CareConsumersWelfareMealsSoilEtcPollutionCentsNinetyTaxpayersPursesObesityPublic HealthFast FoodHamburgersSubsidiesNinety NineHealth Care SystemSlaughterhouses Author:Michael Pollan
“Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!” WorldSoulCostModelsOilBoatYour SoulRegionsVery Popular Author:Maureen Johnson