Famous Quotes & Sayings

He did a tremendous job at Exxon Mobil, making the Mobil acquisition when oil was $10 a barrel as opposed to all these other executives now making all their acquisitions when oil is at $55.

He'd been having a good year down in A-ball, and he's showing why he's up here. He's got a nice short, little, simple swing. He's just finding the barrel every time.

Half a million barrels in and of itself is not going to change a hell of a lot. But if it is prolonged or we have further threats, that will move the market higher.

I always loved barrel racing, but didn't have a horse that enjoyed it. Finally I have a horse that has the passion and loves to do it just as much as I do.

He is like a sponge, ... He is very receptive and has an outstanding work ethic. We have been working on little mechanical things, like knowing where the barrel of the bat is and trying not to work so hard to get a better swing, and it is making him a more productive hitter. I think he is turning into one of the better second basemen in the league.

Lyle Overbay

He doesn't give you anything that you're going to put the barrel on consistently. When we beat him, it was just one of those days. We kind of got lucky.

From his language he recognizes that while higher prices are good for revenues in the short run, longer term they help destroy demand. OPEC is probably going to increase by 1 million barrels a day.

We were back to normal production six weeks after the hurricane. During that six weeks we distributed a million barrels of on-hand gas and imported another two million barrels for local and regional use.

We believe that the oil ministers are inclined to defend a $55 per barrel floor in the near term.

When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.

We're staring down the barrel of a loaded gun and that gun is ready to fire,

We're staring down the barrel of $4 a gallon for gas.

Frank Murkowski

When we had $10 a barrel a year ago, it was the market that was making the determination, ... To blame 'big oil' on profiteering is a little misleading ... the market is setting the price, not U.S. 'big oil.'

World producers need to bring another 1 1/2 million barrels per day on line every year to meet rising demand. So even a minor supply disruption is going to have a disproportionate impact on oil prices.

We're forecasting oil will grind higher up to $33, ... with an ultimate spike up to $40 a barrel on the outbreak of hostilities.

With the right investment environment and under the right government, Iraq could increase production by a million barrels a day every year for the next 10 years, ... It could be the largest oil exporter in the world, eclipsing Saudi Arabia.

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

P. J. O'Rourke

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

We don't know exactly how much has been leaked, but so far 1395 barrels of liquids have been collected, most of crude that it is mixed with snow.

The reaction from the public has been amazing. A few of us went to eat at Cracker Barrel one night and I still had my Brookshire name tag on. People just kept coming up and saying, 'Thanks for being there.' We didn't even have to pay for our meal.

The question is where to set our sights next. The only cap I see coming up is on the order of $85 a barrel -- something equivalent in real terms to the highest we saw.

The Democrats are staring down the barrel of a gun.

Fritz Kreisler

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

What we hear about the discussions is they are talking about 2 million barrels per day for 30 days,

People are not yet factoring in a high probability of a military strike and that's rather surprising. We should be preparing for oil prices to spike quite a lot higher, even $100 a barrel is not out of the question, and that could have a big impact on currencies.

Overall we're starting to do some good things. Tonight and over the last weekend, we're starting to get the barrel back on the ball, and we're turning the lineup over at the bottom of the order and that's making our whole lineup better.

Over the last 20 years, the size of oil discoveries has fallen off dramatically. We are finding more fields than in the '60s and '70s, but they're much smaller. We're producing three barrels of oil for every one barrel of oil that we find.

Bob Woodward

over the summer, or as we get closer to the election, they could increase production several million barrels a day and the price would drop significantly.

Andy Irons

I saw it was a little crumbly out there and I knew that Damien would be looking for the barrel and luckily he only got that one,

I think an OPEC price ceiling of US$40-US$50 a barrel is favorable for the organization's members.

I think an OPEC price ceiling of $40-$50 a barrel is favorable for the organization's members.

Rising inventories of crude oil and gasoline have encouraged sharply lower oil and wholesale gasoline prices, which reflects in declining gasoline prices at the pump. Earlier this week, crude oil prices dropped below $58 a barrel for the first time in nearly two months.

Our position is that we must evaluate a cut of between 500,000 and one million barrels per day (bpd).