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I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies. -- Anne Wojcicki
I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share. -- Elizabeth Warren
Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy security. -- Dinsha Patel
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. -- Maurice Hinchey
There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers. -- Pete Domenici
The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally. -- Andrew Gould
It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. -- Maurice Hinchey
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that. -- Pete Domenici
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies. -- Winona LaDuke
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. -- James Lovelock
Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses. -- Mo Ibrahim
The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make. -- David Pratt
Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. -- Barack Obama
Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables. -- Paul Hawken
You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. -- Ted Danson
What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion. -- Marty Meehan
Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits. -- Russ Carnahan
You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it. -- Kid Rock
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years. -- Daniel Yergin
American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a result, they have developed a strongly pro-Azerbaijan position. -- Stephen Kinzer
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies. -- Major Owens
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill. -- Dan Benishek
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Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner - methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal. -- Thomas Friedman
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. -- James Buchan
American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil, -- Ahmed Chalabi
It's not terribly fun defending you (oil companies), but I do. -- Larry Craig
It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton. -- Michael Moore
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. -- Bill McKibben
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses. -- George Kaiser
In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs. -- Jay Leno
Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more. -- Keith Ellison
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth. -- Robert Pollin
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. -- Scott Westerfeld
Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it. -- Smedley Butler
If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy. -- Rick Renzi
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters. -- Veerappa Moily
It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists. -- John J. McCloy
The present oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of government mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war. -- Milton Friedman
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. -- Gore Vidal
It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter. -- Ron Klein
We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields]. -- Matthew Simmons
I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't. -- David Letterman
You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel... -- Ted Danson
What's amazing to me? General Electric has a bigger budget for - special interest budget than all of the oil companies combined, and yet nobody says anything. -- Glenn Beck
Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis. -- Oliver Stone
In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways. -- Virgil Goode
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there -- Lloyd Bridges
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there. -- Lloyd Bridges
If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please. -- Rafael Correa
We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security. -- Barack Obama
The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete. -- Jeremy Rifkin
What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use. -- Chris Paine
It was reported in the paper that President Bush received a 'warm reception' from the Daytona 500 drivers. Well sure, the drivers had never met anyone who was sponsored by more oil companies than they were. -- Jay Leno

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