151 Quotes by Peter Hitchens

Shell has had another poor performance with the drill bit.

In other words, it will go Total's way.

Governments in Europe are still concerned about national interests, ... they see oil companies as important for national security.

These are attractive assets, and an interest in upstream assets is always valuable,

This is a good deal, BP had a hole in its lubricants portfolio and need a quality lubricant following the Mobil venture's breakup,

The compromise could be 700,000 barrels but the actual production increase could be around 400,000. At 1 million extra barrels prices may be drawn lower but at 500,000 prices could hit $40.

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.

Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies.