Michael Ignatieff

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.

Canadian Politician

Robert Zubrin

We need to drastically reduce the importance of the petroleum game itself by enacting flex-fuel-vehicle legislation that will open the transportation market to fuels derived from non-petroleum sources.

American Scientist

Daryl Hannah

The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.

American Actress

Richard Lamm

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.

American Politician

James Buchan

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

British Novelist

John Hoeven

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

Rachel Lindsay

I use the petroleum jelly on my lips because they get very dry and it's truly the only thing that works.

American Celebrity

Marcy Kaptur

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.

George M. Church

Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer.

Simone Weil

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

French Philosopher

Petroleum often refers to energy sources like gasoline and diesel.

Energy Fuel

Petroleum is vital in industries, not just for fuel but for manufacturing.

Industrial Use

Though it's an oil, petroleum can be refined into solid products.

Not Always Liquid

Petroleum prices can vary, influencing economics and politics.

Market Variable

Petroleum is heavily traded globally, affecting its economic importance.

Trading Commodity

Countries rich in petroleum reserves have significant economic advantages.

Reserves Matter

Many everyday items are made from petroleum-based plastics.

Plastic Source

Petroleum is the starting point for creating various chemicals.

Chemicals Origin

Realize petroleum's use extends far beyond just fuel purposes.

Beyond Fuel

 One of the things that we also need to do, is we need to try to not kind of fool ourselves into thinking that you can have a green world, before you reduce the amount of oil that we use. We need to focus on reducing the oil. What you see in this top drawing is a schematic of how petroleum gets used in the U.S. economy.

Lisa Margonelli: The...

 came to be valued was palm oil used initially can be used for many things but used primarily to lubricate the rapidly multiplying machines of industrializing Europe the petroleum era had not yet dawned in this period some remarkable West African entrepreneurs are raised to organize enterprises to

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 Take petroleum, a mixture of different types of hydrocarbons. Some of these are valuable as fuels, and others make good raw materials for generating electric power. To separate them, experts rely on one important different hydrocarbons boil at different temperatures.

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 of the world's energy consumption derives from advanced, renewable sources such as solar, wind and biofuels, less than two percent, and the reason is purely economic. Coal and natural gas are cheaper than solar and wind, and petroleum is cheaper than biofuels.

Jason Pontin: Can...

 mess and by the way he convicted me as a plunderer of the earth and I then challenged the people of interface my company to lead our company in the entire industrial world to sustainability which we defined as eventually operating our petroleum

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 not the best use of bioenergy. As you think of what are the alternatives to this system -- it's important to find alternatives because it turns out that the U.S. is dwindling in its petroleum reserves, but it is not dwindling in

Juan Enriquez: Using...

 plow we transformed the planet it's the biggest transformation of any process by humans in the biosphere but then after World War two we got into really transforming the planet using petroleum as fuel for the transformation

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 and look over the span of history, at what we might call the petroleum interval, it's a short period in history where we've discovered this extraordinary material, and then based a whole way of life around it.

Rob Hopkins: Transition...

 Here we show the world's energy resources. The big one in the center is the annual energy from the sun. The ones on the right-hand side are from the finite resources. For example, the petroleum,