112 Quotes About Barrels

We have more oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve than we've ever had. It's full. And using about 30 or 40 million barrels for a few months to get the prices down will not hurt us strategically,

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

The government's offer of barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has mitigated some of the upward price pressure on crude oil. The problems with gasoline and natural gas may not be helped even if the SPR is tapped. If refineries are offline and can't run the extra oil, it will make no difference.

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.

The figure depends on how the cuts are delivered. No one is really expecting the full 2 million barrels per day to be delivered, but somewhere around three-quarters of those cuts is what the market is looking for.

GM's promotion of E-85 fuel is helping to build the infrastructure needed for the ethanol industry to continue growing and replacing millions of barrels of non-renewable oil. The ethanol industry is committed to meeting the demands of millions of American consumers who want to choose cleaner-burning ethanol.

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

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,

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.