The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.
Ahmed Zaki YamaniThe first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.
Ahmed Zaki YamaniI will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.
Ahmed Zaki YamaniThe Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
Ahmed Zaki YamaniThe oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani