Quotes on Petroleum

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

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.