Quotes About Crude Oil

#1. A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

Gary Miller

#2. Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.

Ari Shapiro

#3. In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

Gary Miller

#4. 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.

John Shimkus

#5. Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

Gary Miller

#6. Bone-char is a granular material produced by charring animal bones. Bone- char is used to refine crude oil into petroleum jelly.

Kayla Fioravanti

#7. If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

Douglas Coupland

#8. First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

Peter DeFazio

#9. The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity.

Anthony Foxx

#10. About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

Peter DeFazio

#11. Testing trading ideas is like digging for gold or looking for crude oil in deep waters. The more trading ideas you test, the better your chances of finding patterns that can be traded profitably.

Henrique M. Simoes

#12. Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

James Buchan

#13. Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real terms in imports of crude oil and petroleum products.

Ben Bernanke

#14. Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

Frances Beinecke

#15. Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

Gary Miller

#16. Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to get refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the money.

John Shimkus

#17. The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

Timothy Noah

#18. This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

Itzhak Perlman

#19. The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

Gary Miller

#20. The future looks like gasoline ... crude oil ... is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

Chris Cleave

#21. In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

Peter DeFazio

#22. We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.

Richard Kinder

#23. Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem ... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#24. I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#25. Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.

Cameron Stracher

#26. Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.

Irwin Corey

#27. Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.

Richard Armour

#28. Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

Peter Schiff

#29. So when time had begun to run out on Adelia with no really acceptable husband in sight, she'd married money
crude money, button money. She was expected to refine this money, like oil.

Margaret Atwood

#30. I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

Daniel Handler

#31. It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.

Philip Kitcher

#32. Together we are more than we are apart, Anita, that is what love is.' I

Laurell K. Hamilton

#33. Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.

James Surowiecki

#34. I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

Louis C.K.