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"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."
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"The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated."
"Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill."
"There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better."
"We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world."
"The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars."
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"And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow."
"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."
"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."
"Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property."
"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."
"If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."
"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."
"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."
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