“Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we need a comprehensive energy plan for the country that includes conventional resources like oil and gas, but that also takes advantage of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other renewable resources.” NeedsSaidCountryEnergyPresidentPlansPolicyWindResourcesAdvantageIndependenceOilOur CountryGasPresident ObamaConventionalComprehensiveOil And GasEnergy PolicyRenewable ResourcesEnergy IndependenceBiomassGeothermal Author:Ken Salazar
“The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'” LongSaidRealGovernmentGrowsWaterLandFlowOilGrassRhymeThey SaidSay AnythingTreatiesOklahoma Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929 Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929
“I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.” BelieveSaidGovernmentTogetherI BelieveTruth IsI Believe InHearingOilCompromiseFriendlySenateGlue Author:Gerald R. Ford
“If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.” IfsSaidLandFingersOilPunishmentGoddessOffenseWrathEldersOffendersClans Book:Things Fall Apart Source: Things Fall Apart
“A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.” MaySaidWifeCarOilRise AboveSaudisBarrelsArabian Author:Conan O'Brien
“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.” WayYearsHumansSaidBitsLandCivilizationChinaOilBorrowingPersianHuman CivilizationPersian GulfBorrowing Money Author:Al Gore