112 Quotes About Barrels

Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel.

This move will not solve the real problem - the oil cannot be refined. Even before the loss of 1.8 million barrels per day of output refineries were struggling to keep up with demand. So increasing the crude supply will not overcome this bottleneck.

Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go.

We use 21 million barrels of oil a day, and only have the refining capacity for 16 million on a good day, ... And after Katrina and Rita, we haven't had many good days.

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.

It is a country interested in growing rapidly, and one of the big bottlenecks in its growth has been energy. If it was suddenly trying to buy 1.5 million barrels today, it'd sop up most of the surplus right now.

It's less than 30,000 barrels a day in a country that consumes 21 million. That's not even rearranging a single deck chair on the Titanic. But psychologically, it has some effect.

They would have to raise production by more than a million barrels a day to get it down to $25,

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.