Who said 'Without petroleum all the machines and tools of the industrial world are mere pieces of iron, rusty, motionless and lifeless'?

Who said 'Without petroleum all the machines and tools of the industrial world are mere pieces of iron, rusty, motionless and lifeless'?

• A. Anwar Sadat
• B. Gamal Abdel Nasser
• C. Hosni Mubarak
• D. Mohamed Morsi

Answer: (B)

Energy powers industry, and this statement highlights that without petroleum the industrial world loses its driving force. The figure who spoke those words is Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s leader known for promoting rapid modernization and resource nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s. He tied national progress to control of oil resources, arguing that oil is essential for building a self-reliant, industrial economy. The later Egyptian leaders—Sadat, Mubarak, and Morsi—came after his era and are not associated with this particular emphasis.

Energy powers industry, and this statement highlights that without petroleum the industrial world loses its driving force. The figure who spoke those words is Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s leader known for promoting rapid modernization and resource nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s. He tied national progress to control of oil resources, arguing that oil is essential for building a self-reliant, industrial economy. The later Egyptian leaders—Sadat, Mubarak, and Morsi—came after his era and are not associated with this particular emphasis.