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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #oil




I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.


T. Boone Pickens


#come #had #happened #i #i think

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.


T. Boone Pickens


#cheaper #exchange #floor #ground #look

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.


T. Boone Pickens


#different #different things #foreign #foreign oil #fuel

There is no free market for oil.


T. Boone Pickens


#free market #market #oil

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.


T. Boone Pickens


#available #canada #capital #develop #huge

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.


Jodi Picoult


#book #books #break #call #chapters

To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.


Karl Pilkington


#any #cat #easy #looking #me

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.


Plautus


#conduct #filth #finest #more #ornament

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.


Martha Plimpton


#especially #family #foil #funny #man

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


#american families #depend #families #firewood #gas






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