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“I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'”

Littles Character America Guy Century Towns Oil Driving Hills Texas Foxes 20th Century Port Saddest Arthur Beverly Hills Refinery

Author:G.W. Bailey

“The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance.”

Needs Country Levels Possibility Higher Exercise Demand Members Accounts Expected Flexibility Emergencies Maintenance Refinery

Author:Claude Mandil

“There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.”

People Should Use Community Company Waste Majors Rivers Excuse Oil Chemicals Toxic No Excuses Dump Eco Spades Pipeline Sewage Toxic Waste Refinery

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.”

Way Fall Half Streets Building Revolution Industry Shadow Rivers Towns Noise Bridges Squares Crossings Civics Systematic Steep Bewildered Marshes Bluffs Confluence Refinery

Book:The Shadow of Innsmouth

Source: The Shadow of Innsmouth

“Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.”

Long Faces Interest Planets Oil Miles Canada Sand Mexico Barrels Pipeline National Interests Keystones Gulf Of Mexico Refinery Keystone Pipeline

Author:Jeff Goodell

“My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.”

Thinking Knows Hard My Family Police Hats Closets Refinery

Author:Robert Crais

“I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.”

Jobs Gone Paper Prison Saved Helpful Working It Chemicals Construction Steel Mechanic Great Work Mills Really Sad Carpentry Refinery Welding

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.”

Knows Want Use Energy Company Car Huge Amount Oil Reports Gas Electricity Gasoline Refining Oil Companies Energy Use Refinery

Author:Chris Paine

“In the United States, liberals have made it virtually impossible [to increase the supply of oil] by banning drilling in all sorts of places and preventing any new refinery from being built anywhere in the country in the last 30 years.”

Years Made Country States Lasts United United States Impossible Built Increase Oil Made It Preventing Drilling Refinery

Author:Thomas Sowell

“We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.”

People Way Firsts Technology Generations Months Six Training Percent Meaningful Six Months New Technology New Generation Refinery Welding

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.]”

Important Real Bigs Values Next White Fields Oil Data Refining Real Value Refinery Oil Field

Author:Maurice Levy

“With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.”

“The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.”

Years Natural Development Industry Resources Plant Oil Thirty Iron Grain Coal Paradigm Thirty Years Natural Resources Processing Timber Refinery Lard

Author:Charles R. Morris

“With the films, it starts off with certain coordinates in the world and seeing what happens. What happens if you place yourself at an oil refinery in the Middle East? What happens if you place yourself in the White House Cabinet Room? What happens if you place yourself with Brad Pitt on the set of a film? And so on. And no matter what I capture, there is a sense of déjà vu to it, like you might have come across this visual before.”

Ifs World Matter Might Happens Film Certain House White Rooms Seeing Middle Like You No Matter What Oil East Visuals White House Capture Middle East Cabinets Brad Coordinates Refinery

Author:Sarah Morris

“I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.”

Europe Missions Oil Strings Target Prime Combat Factories Hitting Yards Tanks Flew Aircraft Railway Refinery

Author:George McGovern

“The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.”

World Building India Investment China Oil Wheels Fund Factories Singapore Dubai Refinery Ferris Wheels

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.”

Knows Order India Asking Oil Dependence Iranian Refinery

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.”

Years Country Today Past Three Energy Seeing Policy Built Responsible Environmental Congress Decades Extremist Crunch Refinery

Author:Marsha Blackburn

“Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.”

Giving Use Industry Vote Environmental Excuse Extremes Protection Oil Legislation Misguided Environmental Protection Oil Industry Oil Price Refinery

Author:Sherwood Boehlert

“The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.”

World Building Singapore Dubai Refinery Ferris Wheels

Book:The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)

Source: The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)

“Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.”

Source: The Boy Detective Fails

“As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.”

Knows Has Beens States United United States Built Oil Usa Crude Ethanol Refinery Crude Oil

Author:John Shimkus

“If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.”

Ifs Hard Use Available Oil Refinery

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.”

Years Reason Lasts America Purpose Company Economic Environmental Oil Objections Oil Companies Mergers Refinery

Author:Peter DeFazio