“Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.” IfsThinkingWorldStatesWould BeStrongUnitedUnited StatesMiddlePolicyKingsWeakSickFundamentalsWideOilEastSignificantFamiliarIranMiddle EastUnlikelyConsensusSaudisArab WorldYemenSignificant ChangeBahrainKing Abdullah Author:Elliott Abrams
“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
“Historically, the United States has had a wonderful energy policy. We're blessed with a diversity of resources. We have oil. We have gas. We have coal. We have nuclear. And renewables. And as a result, one of our biggest competitive advantages has been affordable energy. You need a strong economy and you need affordable energy to fuel that economy.” NeedsHas BeensStatesEnergyStrongUnitedResultsUnited StatesEconomyWonderfulPolicyDiversityResourcesAdvantageBlessedOilNuclearFuelGasCoalAffordableCompetitive AdvantageEnergy PolicyStrong Economy Author:John S. Watson
“So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.” LongStatesUnitedMistakeUnited StatesFirePolicyTerrorismOilOccupationForeign PolicyPalestineIsraeliPouringBiasedIsraeli Occupation Author:Khaled Mashal
“Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC.” IfsMenStatesGirlNationsUnitedBoysUnited StatesEmotionalOilContactSuspectsPowerlessHomophobiaSissyOpec Author:Warren Farrell
“Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.” StatesUnitedFictionUnited StatesLowsOilOil Price Author:Dick Cheney
“If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again the price of a barrel of oil could reach $150 or even $200.” IfsStatesEnoughUnitedUnited StatesMadOilIranBarrelsVenezuela Author:Hugo Chavez
“Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.” TryingStatesRememberUnitedCompanyUnited StatesResponseWesternBritishOilIranContinuationOil CompaniesAppeasement Author:Leonard Peikoff
“If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.” IfsStatesThreeCoursesOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesEffectsOilGasCentsDrillingGas Prices Author:Jennifer Granholm
“It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.” StatesSeemsUnitedMoneyCompanyUnited StatesPositionOilOil CompaniesMasochistic Author:John J. McCloy
“We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.” IfsWorldLongStatesUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyFieldsSpringIsraelOilTreatedTiesKnotsArab WorldArab SpringOil Field Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Some people have criticized the United States and the United States military for guarding oil fields and not guarding the Iraqi National Museum which had priceless antiquities in it. They say that this shows a fundamental lack of respect for Iraqi history. I want to remind those people of this: The oldest relics in the museum, 5,000 or 6,000 years old. That oil is 65 million years old. You had to guard that. ... Those antiquities will only last another 5,000 or 6,000 years. When we burn that oil, those fumes will linger long after.” PeopleWantYearsLongStatesShowsLastsUnitedMillionsUnited StatesMilitaryFieldsFundamentalsOilMuseumsPricelessAntiquityOld YouRelicsGuardingUnited States MilitaryLack Of RespectOil Field Author:Jon Stewart
“I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.” ThinkingStatesUnitedUnited StatesHugeSourceFineAmountWasteOilStrikesMake SenseFuelVegetables Author:Michael Pollan
“The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.” WorldWantStatesInterestNaturalLinesUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesEffectsPolicyResourcesPopulationOilImplicationsNatural Resources Author:Tariq Ali
“The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.” StillsStatesUnitedUnited StatesProjectsEnvironmentalProductionsOilIronyCanadaSandOppositionStoppingCoastPacificRailPipelineKeystonesKeystone Pipeline Author:John Hoeven
“The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years to bring any oil online, and it would probably go to Japan. It sure wouldn't help gasoline prices here. All the economists say gasoline is still too cheap in the United States anyway. So here we're having this huge debate over offshore drilling that is just straightforward nonsense, which won't surprise you.” YearsLooksStillsIdeasStatesHelpingUnitedViewsUnited StatesHugeSurpriseOilPoint Of ViewDebateNonsenseJapanOnlineEconomistStraightforwardGasolineDrillingOffshoreGasoline Prices Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.” WorldStatesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryMaterialsEssentialsOilSubstanceOperationsDependentWarfareRaw MaterialsProsecutionPetroleumMilitary Operations Author:Michael Klare
“The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.” StatesNaturalUnitedUnited StatesEventsConflictMajorsIraqOilExtensionsInvasionAugustUnprecedentedKuwaitSuppliers Author:Michael Klare
“Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.” WorldYearsStatesUnitedUnited StatesAmountOilUsaCoal Author:Tim Holden