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"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."
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"It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter."
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"The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean."
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"As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up."
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"We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem."
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"By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East."
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"The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars."
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"We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that."
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"If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available."
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"I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums."
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"The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing."
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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
Family
"And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow."
People
"It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79."
Government
"Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service."
Health
"There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief."
People
"In politics, guts is all."
Politics
"It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment."
Man
"Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill."
Work
"And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit."
Choice
"What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did."
War
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