Fuel Quotes - Page 9

• Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that continue exploring and developing fossil fuel resources for which there is no safe use are going to pay a very heavy cost for that.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Change, Needs, Cost

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• I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Hands, Long

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• Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

  Chip R. Bell

  Listening, Curiosity, Marketing

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.69, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Food is fuel and it keeps us going just like a car needs petrol. When you're running a car it's important to think about what fuel you're putting in because if you put in the rough stuff, what's going to happen? The car's going to slow down and perform badly because you've neglected it.

  William Katt

  Running, Thinking, Car

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• In the European Union, a fleet average of 95 grams of CO2 per kilometer will be permitted in 2020. This corresponds to fuel consumption of about four liters (per 100 kilometers; about 59 mpg). We have to continue reducing the fuel consumption of our vehicles and offer hybrid and electric vehicles, or else we will be unable to achieve these values.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Average, Electric Vehicles, Four

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

  John Waters

  Running, Fun, Long

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.

  John Bingham

  Running, Distance, Moving

  John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.105, Rodale

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• You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Fossils, Economic, Turns

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

  Jack Nicholson

  Sports, Fans, Theory

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or "sustainable." We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Self, Availability

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.146, Counterpoint Press

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• beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Grief, Fool, Easy

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• A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

  John Coleman

  Carbon Footprint, Government, Listening

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• There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

  Alexandra Paul

  Fossils, Reason, Method

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• If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

  Francis Bacon

  Fire, Sparks, Revolution

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.465

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• As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Ocean, Storm

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• We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.

  Vinod Khosla

  Oil, Needs, Half

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• Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely.

  John Lindsay

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.

  David J. Schwartz

  Motivational, Hands, Action

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• The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced.

  Al Gore

  Jobs, Smart, Home

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

  Avi Lewis

  People, Fossils, Lines

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel.

  Thomas Campbell

  Love, Fire, Needs

  Thomas Campbell (1837). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.226

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• Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and Them, instead of what it is: this profound challenge we face given our energy norms right now, the fuels of convenience toward something new. No matter what the politics are, it's still an enormous transformation that has to take place.

  Andrew Revkin

  Profound, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Country, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's really only one entity in society that can solve that problem, and that is government. And the air is a scarce resource.

  Jay Inslee

  Dirty, Air, Government

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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