#oil

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#grievous #idleness #needless #springs #toil

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#behavior #cannot #cement #chain #chains

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#before #confluence #economic #financial #hit

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#alternative #deliberate #dependence #develop #end

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap. ↗

— Bob Graham

#almost #been #below #close #comes

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

#bolster #consumers #could #enabling #frankly

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#again #answer #broken #child #clean

My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#doing #educational #film #first #got

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#child #different #different people #go #i

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil. ↗

— Teresa Heinz

#because #boy #girl #greed #john