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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

We have to get the oil where the oil is.

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

I fought fire with oil.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.