Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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,

O. J. Simpson

We just ran out of pitching in the tournament and he hadn't pitched all year long. It was kind of one of those bottom of the barrel type of things.

We will start pumping oil by the end of 2007, with production of at least 30,000 barrels per day (bpd).

Sean Hannity

trying to get every tax dollar for every pork barrel project.

The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad.

. . . 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.

We expected prices to come down to around $60 a barrel and that exactly where they are. There is still the minor risk that the hurricane could change course, but this is very minor.

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.

There's less crude being run now through refineries than there is loss in production in the Gulf. We're estimating refinery runs are down about 2 million barrels a day while crude out of the Gulf is down a million and a half.

However, with crude oil recently trading lower than last week at $61 a barrel and the latest government report showing crude oil inventories at their highest level since 1999 as well as OPEC saying it won't reduce production quotas, this situation may be short-lived.

I mean, I believe very strongly in the fundamental of oil drilling, and the oil drillers are perhaps the most spectacular stocks of this year. They're still up; they were up yesterday, and they're near their all-time highs, and that's because the world uses 200 million barrels of oil more than it drills. The companies that own the equipment to drill are going to be utilized more and the rates are going up.

If you can tell me where the next move in oil prices is going to be -- up to $60 a barrel or down to $20 -- I can tell you what the economy is going to do.

If you have $75 a barrel crude oil, you're sort of at a starting point of $2.90 a gallon for gasoline.

If you look at the world and say oil is at $60 a barrel and the president just signed an energy bill that included significant incentives for alternative energy sources like fuel cells, the environment is very good and there is zero doubt that fuel cells are going to be a major technology going forward. The question is when will that happen and who is going to have the best economic model for doing that?

If you lock in hedges here at $60 a barrel and prices go much lower, you are obviously doubling your pain.

I'm just trying to make solid contact right there, and I got a slider over the plate and put the barrel on it.

Marcus Davis

I'm just having fun out there and putting good barrel on the ball. They are a great group of guys and anything I can do to help the team.

If oil prices were to stay at $35 a barrel throughout 2001 or if they were to escalate to $40 a barrel or over, then the impact on inflation and world growth would be more significant,

It looked like money down a rat hole. I can certainly see why they'd be cautious now. Just because you're making an extra $35 a barrel doesn't mean you should be pouring that into exploration.

Brittany Howard

I've had some terrible jobs, but working in a kitchen at Cracker Barrel is probably the worst I've ever had. I was a grill cook - awful! It wasn't the smell, it was the people. The music, too. We had to be 'country fresh,' so they played this terrible country music eight hours during the shift. It was a bleak existence - a very dark time.

It was refiners in the Midwest and on the East Coast that stepped up, while crude runs on the Gulf Coast continued to slide, losing another 52,000 barrels daily to stand 1.565 million barrels lower than before the storm.