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"The more energy taken, the less energy that is left for us to implement our goals and the smaller the probability of realization of our innate potential."

"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."

"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."

"When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England."

"There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash."
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"If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market."

"I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now."

"So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology."

"In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient."

"The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line."

"We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia."

"A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety."

"But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years."

"The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas."
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