"People already hate us because we're in business," Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the sardonic head of Yukos oil, told the writer Chrystia Freeland.
Vice President Al Gore, a frequent critic of "big oil," told Fox News yesterday that he would give "a major policy speech" today on what to do about the soaring price of home heating oil.
"People who trade oil futures in New York and London read ten articles saying that the Saudi regime is going to collapse, then they bid up the price of oil," Robert Mabro, the chairman of the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies and an internationally renowned expert on oil, told me last week.
"The fact that oil companies now have to go a mile under water and then drill another three miles below that in order to hit oil tells us something about the direction of the oil industry: extraction is more expensive and it is going to be inherently more risky," Obama said.
If you're allergic to incense or any essential oils, tell your therapist before the massage.
By scrubbing your skin, you send a signal to your oil glands telling them to produce more oil.
He discussed local oil business telling about the process of automation of oil wells and of the discovery of huge deposits of tar sand in Northeastern Alberta.
"We will soon overcome these problems and hiccups," Nuri Berruien, the chairman of the national oil company, told an oil conference this week.
Cameron is like a snake oil salesmen telling people that his product will eventually work provided it does not kill them.
Mr. Ch z conceded that differences remained with the Obama administration, but he also extended an invitation for President Obama to visit Venezuela's southern oil region, telling Mr. Moshiri, "You bring him here".
