"France chose nuclear because we have no oil, gas or coal resources, and recent events have only reinforced the wisdom of our choice, " says Laurent Striker, senior vice president at Electricite de France, the world's largest power company.
Obama : I think that in ten years, we can reduce our dependence so that we no longer have to import oil from the Middle East or Venezuela.
"For 10 years we have seen no benefit from the oil, nothing at all, " says Al Bashir.
"We have had no requests for additional finance, to cope with the oil increases, " Sanjeev Gupta, Assistant Director of the IMF's African department told the BBC.
And my first question, do you know of any report that this oil is being extracted so we will no longer have to depend so much on North Africa and the Middle East?
It would be good for our environment, because one of the things, obviously, that we have to recognize is, is that no matter what we do, oil prices are going to be going up over the long term.
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It is equally axiomatic that, no matter what we do, we are almost certainly going to have less oil than we need, certainly at prices we can afford.
"Today we see that the former militant leaders are given so much money and inducements but in the communities people are still drinking from polluted waters, oil spills are not cleaned up and we don't have modern amenities - no good education facilities and no health care system, " he said.
We need to do it urgently, even as we contend with some of these other issues that affect our economy that either we have limited control over or no control over, like the effect that the Arab uprisings had on oil prices or the effect that the earthquake and tsunami had on the economy because of disrupted supply chains.
And the fact of the matter is, is that if they even approach the amount of car ownership that we have, oil will run out very quickly and on the way, prices will just spike up naturally, no matter what we do.
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