“First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.” FirstsEnergyPayCompanyShareIndustryHigherTaxesPercentFairsRateCurrentsOilDebateDespiteGasFair ShareOil And Gas Author:John S. Watson
“Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.” PlansIndustryTerribleOilUnexpectedGasPredictingOil And Gas Author:David Dixon
“The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.” StreetsIndustryOilStreamsGasHometownOil And GasCalgary Author:Gary Kovacs
“There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.” NeedsEnergyNaturalWindSourceIndustryOilFuelGasCoalFossilsUrgentSuppliesFossil FuelRenewable EnergyNatural GasEnergy SourcesBurning Fossil FuelsWind PowerRenewable Energy SourcesWind EnergyGeothermalGeothermal Energy Author:Bill McKibben
“Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.” RealHumanityBusinessRolesIndustryExpectationsConcernClimateClimate ChangeExpectedGlobal WarmingGasEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesLeadership RolesSocietal Expectations Author:Ali al-Naimi
“We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current conditions in the oil and gas sector, this government will not consider unilateral regulation.” WantGovernmentGivenNatureConditionsIndustryBasesCurrentsOilGasRegulationIntegratedContinentalOil And Gas Author:Stephen Harper
“Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.” CountryIndustryEssenceProductionsBombsGasCampsAgricultureChamberCorpsesFamineReductionHydrogenExterminationFood IndustryGas ChambersHydrogen BombBlockades Author:Martin Heidegger
“When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.” PeopleNaturalMillionsFocusDoorsIndustryNeededGasKnockingNatural Gas Author:Josh Fox
“For those people who are going to tune in strictly for the pyrotechnics, we have better and bigger explosions. That's a prerequisite of any sequel. But in terms of this, what we're really monitoring is watching the gas industry light our institutions, light our regulatory agencies, light our democracy on fire.” PeopleLightTermDemocracyFireIndustryBiggerInstitutionsAgencyGasTunesExplosionsSequelsPrerequisitesMonitoringPyrotechnics Author:Josh Fox
“The controversy over Russian gas deliveries shines a glaring spotlight on the risks involved in this industry. In an energy NATO, EU and NATO member states would guarantee one another assistance in obtaining energy, in any form, but without violence. Of course, we need an additional pipeline system for this purpose.” NeedsStatesFormPurposeCoursesEnergyViolenceRiskIndustryInvolvedMembersShiningGuaranteesGasAssistanceControversyDeliverySpotlightNatoObtainingPipeline Author:Lech Kaczynski
“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
“Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.” WorldProblemCausesCarSeriousIndustryEnvironmentalShipsPlanesMeatGasFactoriesTruckFarmingEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesContributorsFactory FarmingEnvironmental ProblemsMeat Industry Author:Joan Jett
“Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.” NeedsFirstsStillsIndustryPlantProductionsDuesGasSpheresElectricVolumePower PlantsThermalElectric Power Author:Vladimir Putin