"You've got Perry in the middle of this thing. It looks about as crooked as a barrel of snakes."
"He did a tremendous job at Exxon Mobil, making the Mobil acquisition when oil was $10 a barrel as opposed to all these other executives now making all their acquisitions when oil is at $55."
"The move up in crude oil price from $12 a barrel to nearly $31 a barrel has been really positive for oil stocks, ... The Fund that we manage has responded well to that. Every time oil prices fluctuate - retreating, and then moving back up --- that helps oil stocks."
"We really need it to be below $50 a barrel, but having it below $60 is a big help."
"The technology is truly efficient and economical. But the biggest thing is, our economic analysis shows this technology is better anytime crude oil is at $40 a barrel or higher."
"We expect to get back to 125,000 barrels per day quickly."
"A far more muscular use of the SPR is what is needed at a time when oil is over $70 a barrel."
"Sugar prices in the past few months have pulled back because of the weaker oil price. Now that oil is at around $70 a barrel, sugar has to follow."
"A safe number is probably double that (72 billion barrel) figure. But it's not impossible it's three times as high."
"There's less crude being run now through refineries than there is loss in production in the Gulf. We're estimating refinery runs are down about 2 million barrels a day while crude out of the Gulf is down a million and a half."