Drilling Quotes

You've got a lot of House members that are adamant about wanting to move forward with drilling, period, and that is a concern. We've got to do something that is realistic and will give Florida protections, but we're aware of the climate we're in as well. - Kara Borie

You wouldn't believe the response; there has been a lot of interest. The city has not aired enough of the issues for people to know what's going on. There are so many facets to gas drilling, especially as it moves into the neighborhoods. - Don Young

You have a White House and committee chairmen in the House and Senate who think they are running out of time to get these coastal areas opened to drilling. - Richard Charter

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. - Gloria Swanson

Williams is focused on delivering measurable and meaningful growth in both volumes and reserves. Over the past three years, we have added more than 1.4 trillion cubic feet equivalent in domestic net reserves from our drilling activities. - Ralph Hill

When you have this kind of pressure and temperature, the components of what goes into a traditional drilling tool, they fail, they melt, they capitulate under the pressure. - John King

When the BLM agreed that the area met all the requirements for protection and pledged to update its 1987 management plan, the community as a whole took the agency at its word. By allowing gas drilling on these lands, the agency is ignoring public opinion and the conclusions of its own multiyear public process. - Pete Kolbenschlag

When something like an offshore drilling station is located within that boundary of a state, that's 100 percent of royalties that state receives, ... The way it's written up right now is just not fair to states like Louisiana. - David Vitter

When I drive home to Longmont, I can see drilling rigs in every direction. Do we want to drill in everyone's backyard? - Jim Martin

What gets me is here Katrina comes along and it breaks up all the offshore drilling rigs, and all of the sudden, before the gas in the East Texas area can reach us, we're already paying the increased prices. - James Ware