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I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering. -- Robert Ballard
Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development. -- Frank Murkowski
For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas. -- Lee H. Hamilton
We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas. -- Newt Gingrich
National Democrats often try to pay for something with oil and gas taxes. -- Mark Begich
Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand. -- Jeroen van der Veer
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses. -- George Kaiser
The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it. -- Red Adair
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
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. -- David Suzuki
The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street. -- Gary Kovacs
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources. -- M. King Hubbert
Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production. -- Veerappa Moily
The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas. -- Vladimir Sorokin
Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy. -- John McCain
State companies winning deals because of government-to- government interaction has become a rule rather than an exception. This will increase competition for multinational companies in acquiring oil and gas assets. -- Arjuna Mahendran
Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example. -- Jeff Landry
Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford. -- Phil Gramm
In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration. -- Mercer Reynolds
If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even -- Gwyn Morgan
In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests. -- Terry Tempest Williams
We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska. -- Sarah Palin
We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current conditions in the oil and gas sector, this government will not consider unilateral regulation. -- Stephen Harper
For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived. -- Chellie Pingree
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry. -- Rosa DeLauro
New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate. -- Fred Upton
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens. -- Vladimir Putin
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States. -- Dick Cheney
The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005. -- Kenny Marchant
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
People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas. -- Christophe de Margerie
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
This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together. -- Amanullah Khan
By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country. -- Ron Lewis
Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline. -- Allyson Schwartz
The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?' -- George Foreman
I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores -- Jeff Miller
I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores. -- Jeff Miller
Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system. -- Josh Fox
Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses. -- Bernie Sanders
The world wants India to remain an import-based economy. Then India can be a dumping ground where gold can be dumped and other commodities such as oil and gas. They look at India as a huge market. -- Anil Agarwal
Our traditional oil and gas philosophy does not have conservation as a crucial component, and we can ill afford to continue to spend billions of dollars which are not reflected in the improved human capital of our country. -- Anthony Carmona
Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected. -- Sylvia Earle
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas. -- Daniel Yergin
Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home. -- Chellie Pingree
Our group has been in Asia since 1981 in mining, oil and gas. Now we want to mine not silver and gold, but great stories and people, and change the world of cinema, and we want to do that by walking in the footsteps of Wu Tianming. -- Robert Friedland
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is. -- Dick Cheney
Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous. -- David Suzuki
Today, public companies don't like the idea of conglomerates. People want to buy something in which they know where they are putting their money - into the food business or the oil and gas business. They don't want to put their money into a hodge-podge as a general rule. -- Jim Pattison
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe. -- Bob Beauprez
Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. -- Lamar S. Smith
States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation. -- Gina McCarthy
We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada. -- Richard Kinder
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. -- Mitt Romney
Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher. -- Bobby Jindal
No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric. -- David Pratt
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. -- Wilson Greatbatch
Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered. -- Sam Richards
In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities. -- Daniel Yergin
Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we need a comprehensive energy plan for the country that includes conventional resources like oil and gas, but that also takes advantage of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other renewable resources. -- Ken Salazar
What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact. -- Jared Bernstein
First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent. -- John S. Watson
If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship. -- Barack Obama
I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas. -- Mitt Romney
I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires. -- Mike Love
Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable. -- Ed Rendell
At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas -- Joe Greene
There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive. -- Ray Davies
One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy. -- Alex Epstein
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth. -- Robert Pollin
Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. -- Bob Beauprez
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
The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. -- Yakov Smirnoff
Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children. -- Kumi Naidoo
It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there? -- Dizzy Dean
Mexico holds the fifth-largest shale gas reserve in the world, in addition to large deep-water oil reserves and a tremendous potential in renewable energy. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
All of Iraq's oil fields are under U.S. control which is ironic considering all the gas stations here are run by Middle Easterners. -- Jay Leno
Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas. -- Richard Pombo
I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy. -- Ken Salazar
We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week. -- Jim Costa
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
India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports. -- Abdul Kalam
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
Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future. -- Sebastian Pinera
When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress. -- Ralph Nader
The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050. -- Gwynne Dyer
There's no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per unit of energy produced. -- Katharine Hayhoe
I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil. -- Daryl Hannah
Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs. -- Aubrey McClendon
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels. -- Nikola Tesla
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
These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also. -- Gore Vidal
We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. -- Mac Thornberry
Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos -- Donella Meadows
Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos. -- Donella Meadows

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