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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."
Explore more quotes by Edward Hopper

"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."

"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."

"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."

"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."

"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."

"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."

"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world."

"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
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