If you gave oil companies a choice between the tar sands in Canada or oil in Saudi Arabia, which do you think they'd choose?
Yasser Elguindi
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T. BOONE PICKENS The Western oil companies have really been kept out of Saudi Arabia for many, many years, and I thin...
ARCHIE DUNHAM Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon ...
FRANCES BEINECKE Still, Russia and Saudi Arabia are the ballgame in world oil production. People got worried that if ...
HENRY GROPPE Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
JEFF GOODELL Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn'...
JAMES WOOLSEY I am extremely skeptical that we're looking at a peak oil perspective. We have tar sands, oil shale,...
EDWARD MURPHY So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they...
FRANK CARLUCCI There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi ...
ANDREW NIKIFORUK It would still be bearable, as long as private ownership dominates and gives a competitive push to t...
VALERY NESTEROV The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.
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DONALD TRUMP It's certainly interesting that again his daughter's working for ultimately oil interests. That's wh...
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STEPHEN KINZER The latest security threats in Saudi Arabia, even though they're not directed at oil installations p...
MARSHALL STEEVES The wind resource in the United States is comparable to the oil resource in Saudi Arabia. It's a maj...
TOM GRAY Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining ...
JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices w...
BRUCE LANNI We're seeing evidence of Utah households responding to higher fuel costs by driving less, heating le...
GARY SCHLOSSBERG There is the constant smell of tar, oil continues to flow freely in small quantities in the drains a...
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JOHN HOEVEN We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, i...
JOHN CRAWFORD Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living dow...
NAOMI KLEIN [Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi said the oil-rich kingdom has the capacity to immediately raise its oi...
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JEFF GOODELL They've been burned before. If oil companies had confidence in $40 oil, we would see a substantial i...
DOBIE LANGENKAMP Fundamentals point to continued strength in crude oil prices and Canadian Oil Sands Trust is in an e...
MARCEL COUTU There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a tru...
EVAN OSNOS I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we li...
HANNAH SIMONE It's a sweet, sweet deal for the oil sands. That's the subsidy we think is really unnecessary.
AMY TAYLOR I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursda...
LEON CHARNEY And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait?
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL The national oil companies agreed to invest and the international oil companies backed away.
ALEXANDRE OLIVEIRA Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the ...
AL-WALEED BIN TALAL This less-is-more phenomenon holds true not only for individuals but for entire nations. A good exam...
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BASMAH BINT SAUD Later reports suggested they (Saudi forces) foiled the (attack) attempt, but you still have crude oi...
DAN VAUGHT They are trying to do what they failed to do before, which is to severely damage the oil companies.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN But Saudi Arabia and Kuwait offer, I think, the best opportunities in the gas sector.
ARCHIE DUNHAM He really didn't like that soldiers were in Saudi Arabia, the Holy Land. He said his target was the ...
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ROY H. WILLIAMS Every negative development in the oil price slams the energy stocks. Oil companies are increasingly ...
JAN LEROY I think the major oil companies are going to be looking for more oil in more remote areas. The more ...
BOB POPE I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.
ANNE WOJCICKI This marks an important point in which, for the first time, we got the attention of the oil companie...
EDMUNDO ESPINDOLA The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake. The worst thing we can possib...
AL GORE Instead of giving preference to oil imported from overseas, Washington should look to North American...
JOHN BARRASSO a gift to the oil companies.
CHARLES SCHUMER India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the ...
SALMAN KHURSHID Attorney General Madigan is concerned that oil companies can make billions in profits and not provid...
MELISSA MERZ We've had a pull-back in gold and oil prices, and surprise surprise, oil and gold companies are off,...
JULIE BROUGH I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors st...
FRANCES BEINECKE High oil prices are kind of benefiting Singapore in a way. We're seeing some increase in the order b...
EUBEN PARACUELLES You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing o...
EMERIL LAGASSE My client believed he was a Yemeni working in Saudi Arabia.
JASON BURNETT If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!
GEORGE JESSEL If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutesstop boring!
GEORGE JESSEL If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes—stop boring!
GEORGE JESSEL I expect the integrated oil sector to help support the market if it goes down. Aside from the fact t...
BRUCE LANNI Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which cou...
KENJI ARATA We welcome foreign oil investments, no matter they are from Chinese companies, European companies or...
AHMED IBRAHIM I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.
AL-WALEED BIN TALAL Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way...
IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. ...
JACK HANDY Then the price of oil went down and the rest of Canada, of course, were wringing their hands in glee...
RALPH KLEIN Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy se...
DINSHA PATEL We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Inst...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, w...
KENJI ARATA There should be nothing scary in the oil inventories. It should show huge inventories or close to hu...
DAVID KELLY There are fears in the market that the supply from Iran could be reduced. This is obviously positive...
MARKUS ILG If you drive a man to choose between death of his body or corruption of his soul, how much are you a...
ANNE PERRY There's not a lot we can do about the big oil companies, refineries and pipelines,
JAY NIXON Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in ...
GORE VIDAL The U.S. economy is a very strong economy; if there is a sudden cutoff of Saudi oil, and Americans s...
AMY JAFFE The U.S. economy is a very strong economy; if there is a sudden cutoff of Saudi oil, and Americans s...
AMY MYERS JAFFE It's a fool's errand to expect the oil companies to invest in any significant way.
GEORGE STERZINGER States like Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, or Zimbabwe, which are members of the old Commission, cannot...
KENNETH ROTH There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same pl...
BILL MARIS I think overnight there was another focus on the bank of Canada statement and it pushed aside the oi...
DAVID POWELL We will see a good rally in the Canadian dollar if it is extremely bad and refineries get hit, becau...
BRIAN TAYLOR Oil prices are effectively a tax and we want a low-tax global economy. I am happier with lower price...
EDWARD MENASHY The commercial response we've received confirms the project is a cost-competitive way to link rising...
HAL KVISLE the Senate caved in to oil and gas companies that are rolling in record profits.
KAREN WAYLAND a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia.
PRINCE ABDULLAH You might not like oil companies at home, but it's a lot better if we have it instead of getting it ...
BILLY TAUZIN The current oil price couldn't represents the relations between supply and demand, ... speculation h...
ZHENG JINGPING In the run-up things were looking quite promising and solid, and now it really is a matter of, can t...
CHARLIE SHARP Chevron is one of the world's leading companies in developing heavy oil, and this opportunity expand...
GEORGE KIRKLAND You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fu...
TED DANSON Great entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia are interested in helping promote the Arab language.
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