#oil

One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster. ↗

— John Michael Greer

#economics #myth #peak-oil #age

You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. ↗

— Ted Danson

#auto industry #companies #develop #different #different kinds

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#bits #class #dancers #day #fact

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore. ↗

— Morris Dees

#blood #boil #happen #happened #hard

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#begging #drop #energy #ingenuity #instead

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#corn #ever #first #get #half

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations. ↗

— John Ensign

#american #american taxpayer #cooperate #corruption #decides

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#believe #capital #dedicate #developing #development

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#lord #may #soil