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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. -- Ralph Nader
Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same. -- John Salazar
The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer. -- Ron Wyden
I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much. -- Jeff Bingaman
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. -- Sherwood Boehlert
Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market. -- Allyson Schwartz
The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East. -- Jeff Goodell
Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil. -- Ron Wyden
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. -- Ray Lee Hunt
One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science. -- Al Gore
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan. -- David Dixon
According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist. -- Josh Fox
The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street. -- Gary Kovacs
Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical. -- Giovanni Bisignani
The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth. -- Al Gore
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space. -- Peter Diamandis
Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry. -- Josh Fox
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there. -- Woody Harrelson
Bill Ford is somebody who wants to move American auto industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle. -- Jennifer Granholm
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
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies. -- Naomi Wolf
Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves. -- Van Jones
There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground. -- George Monbiot
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
Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging. -- Anna Lappe
In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell. -- Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari
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