OIL QUOTES III

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In Louisiana, BP claims that it's making progress with the leaking oil in the Gulf. They're working on a plan to heat the Gulf up to 600 degrees and use it to fry chicken.

JIMMY KIMMEL

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, 2010

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British Petroleum said today that if this spill gets worse, they may have to start drilling for water.

DAVID LETTERMAN

Late Night with David Letterman, 2010

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The birthplace of the modern oil industry is commonly considered to be Titusville, Pennsylvania. There Edwin Drake drilled his first modern oil well in 1859. However, oil had been produced in Europe and Russia for several decades before. It was in the United States that the real oil rush was born, where it was distilled into kerosene to use in lighting. Oil was also used as a lubricant for machinery in the growing industrial manufacturing sector. Gasoline, as it happens, was an unwanted by-product of refining at the time due to its volatility.

RAULI PARANEN

The World After Cheap Oil


Oil creates the illusion of a completely changed life, life without work, life for free. Oil is a resource that anaesthetises thought, blurs vision, corrupts.

RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI

Shah of Shahs


Oil companies are nationalities. This plane oughta say EXXON on the side instead of U. S. Navy.

JAMES W. BLINN

The Aardvark Is Ready For War


Why are politicians so eager to pin the blame for oil prices on speculators? Because it lets them believe that we don't have to adapt to a world of expensive gas.

PAUL KRUGMAN

"Fuels on the Hill", New York Times, June 27, 2008

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