Fatih Birol Quotes

#1. There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the North Sea and the US are collapsing ... time is running out.

Fatih Birol

#2. When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.

Michael J. Fox

#3. Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.

Fatih Birol

#5. Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.

Fatih Birol

#6. I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn't, and then they died and you were bound to miss them, often even if you didn't love them.

Amy Bloom

#7. Military glory
that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood
that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy ...

Abraham Lincoln

#8. Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

Fatih Birol

#9. What did it mean, that the two people she loved best in the world hated each other? It was the sides of herself, irreconcilable.

Janet Fitch

#10. People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

George A. Sheehan

#11. We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

Fatih Birol