Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some easy money has been made by people in energy stocks but I don't see anything on the horizon that's going to cause oil to go back to $20 a barrel any time soon since there is a global supply/demand imbalance,

Oil prices are high at $30 a barrel. The U.S. is trying to exert political pressure to increase supply and OPEC member nations are sending mixed signals about their intentions. We have a very volatile market here. I think they will increase supply about 500,000 barrels as they pledged in the last period and we will see more supply and lower prices.

Oil, oil, oil, the price of oil fell back below $US60 a barrel after some bearish inventory numbers. That was the catalyst that spurred some buying in the stocks.

Oil, oil, oil, the price of oil fell back below $60 a barrel after some bearish inventory numbers. That was the catalyst that spurred some buying in the stocks.

Abraham Lincoln

Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

It was a little cutter that was up and out over the plate. I just tried to get the barrel on it and put it into play.

The risk is we are staring down the barrel of negative pre-announcements, so the market has the potential to be disappointed short term.

You're cleaning a river. You're putting $200, $300, $400 million into cleaning this river. What a win for the community. We're going to have a clean river. But on the banks, 25 feet in, we have these barrel fields and the only intention is to cap it.

Hans Blix

You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.

We want that opportunity, ... We would take that gas and those barrels of crude to market faster.

Crude stocks fell by 0.749 million barrels per day, which disappointed some traders who were looking for the SPR releases to have a positive impact on inventories.

Crude stocks are misleading. Yes, they are the highest since 1999 but keep in mind that we are now producing 1 million barrels a day less in the U.S. and refinery runs are up by 1.2 million barrels a day. In that context crude stocks are not high.

Crude stocks are expected to have fallen by 600,000 barrels over the week while distillate stocks are expected to be up by 1.7 million barrels.

Crude oil is staying near $70 a barrel right now. With all of the unrest in the Middle East and the new threats with Iran, all these things just keep gas prices high.

An explosion in a coal mine has been compared to being in the barrel of a shotgun. It's going to expel outward from where the ignition occurs.

Energy up on a day-to-day basis is a factor. Crude is approaching $70 a barrel and natural gas is up too.

Jim Carter

Each truck carries about 400 tons of material and we get about 200 barrels of oil from that.

Europe has shrugged (high oil prices) off pretty well but I think we will see $70 a barrel and that might be the catalyst for a sell-off.

Five, six years ago, Venezuela was producing 3 million barrels a day. Now, it's closer to 2 million.

Jim Taylor

Folks know Cracker Barrel for comfort foods, the fire place, the rocking chairs and nostalgic candy.

Brian Toner had a great day today. Brian Smith got the barrel through the ball, Minogue got a couple hits, and we needed everyone of them today. It was a hitters day, tough for the pitchers to establish their breaking balls.

Before Katrina, the system was already so tight that the worst-case scenario was for a disruption that took 250,000 barrels of capacity out of the picture. That would have been considered a major jolt,

Even though oil futures are flat this morning and have remained around (the) $63 to $64 a barrel level, concerns remain over the prospect of the combination of higher inflation and borrowing costs.

John McCallum

Beyond the 450,000 barrels of (crude) oil per day is the much more important point that this is the future of the global economy and it's fundamentally in our interests that we become a part of it,

At 70 dollars per barrel governments seem prepared to act.

At $41.29 per proven barrel and $111 per 1,000 barrels a day production, the price more than doubles recent deals. Clearly this is a strategic move.

Cosmetic? You are talking about quotas. But when it comes to production, OPEC responds to the market. We are producing 2 million barrels a day more.

What is in a barrel will not go sour.

Claude Mandil

We have 4 billion barrels in strategic stocks.

To get to those last few barrels out there is more expensive than the easy ones. They're all looking for the giant fields because mature fields are declining.

. . . women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Samuel Bodman

To meet our obligations as a member of the International Energy Agency, the United States will release 30 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, ... We will offer the oil for bid.

The organization is now producing 2 million barrels a day over its official production ceiling of 28 million b/d.