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"We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital."

"What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome."

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"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."

"First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas."

"The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources."

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

"We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s."

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

"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."

"But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia."
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