Gas Quotes - Page 18

• Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

  Dan Simmons

  Ideas, Cubes, Poisonous

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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

  Brock Yates

  Zero, Media, Car

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• The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

  Rachel Kushner

  Growing Up, Kids, Smell

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.

  Banesh Hoffmann

  Discovery, Gas Stations, Details

  Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

  Brian Swimme

  Discovery, Hydrogen, Giraffe

  What Is Enlightenment? Magazine Interview, storyoftheuniverse.org.

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• The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.

  Lester R. Brown

  Oil, Carbon Emissions, Wind

  "Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization". Book by Lester R. Brown, October 5, 2009.

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• Wind and solar power, energy efficient buildings, cars that go farther on a tank of gas, and other solutions can fight climate change. I know America can get on a more sustainable path - we just have to raise our voices and demand it.

  Frances Beinecke

  Fighting, Wind, Voice

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• In the near term, oil is galloping ahead and leading our economy. We have to corral the "horse" and gradually reduce our dependence on oil and coal, in their present forms. Green-energy investment is inherently high-tech, and we could lead in the next-generation energy technologies, as we did and do now with oil and gas. All it takes is leadership!

  Wesley K. Wark

  Horse, Technology, Oil

  "General Wesley K. Clark, Co-Chair of Growth Energy". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really big economic weapons, oil and especially natural gas, those have not been brought into play yet - mostly in the form of threat so far. So basically the view from here is that, yeah, things are getting bad, but they could still get much, much worse.

  Peter Kenyon

  Russia, Views, Play

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

  Brad Warner

  Ideas, People, Insanity

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the US has been at the center of most of the energy things that have happened.

  Bill Gates

  Past, Energy, United States

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Swings, Wind

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• When the President is making it harder to mine coal, to use coal, to take advantage of our gas resources, to make it harder to get our oil resources - all those things combine to make our cost of energy higher than it needs to be, and it drives away enterprises from this country. It sends it to places that have lower-cost energy.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Oil, President

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• I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills, fracking, tar sands and the oil madness of our empire continue, people are waking up and realizing that you can't be against petroleum and against fuels that come from nature.

  Josh Tickell

  War, Believe, Oil

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• I can't pay my [bills]. I can't go to work. My car is out of gas.

  Russell Simmons

  Car, Pay, Bills

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• They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence on revenue from oil and gas.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Oil, Leader

  Source: thesaker.is

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• This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue, and I think that the leading economies are very pragmatic and efficient in addressing the issues facing the European economy. That is why we keep approximately 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Europe, Oil

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Fit, Software, Containers

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• At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Reality, Smell, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Zero, Bridges, Energy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I kinda came into my manhood, or what I thought was my adulthood, early. I had to show up, and I had to make sure I had gas money, food money, rent money, clothes money - everything was on me, startin' at that age, so that's what led me to start hustlin', that's what led me to start to try to find ways to fend for myself. And once I did that, I was full-time, bein' in the street, and, bein' in the street, it's cold. It's the way the streets operate, and you have to adapt to that.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Clothes, Age, Trying

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment. But if it had a diesel engine, it was bad.

  Temple Grandin

  Elephants, Scared, Construction

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.

  Chris Mooney

  Technology, Years, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.

  Todd Young

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.

  George Packer

  Mass Destruction, Weapons, Victim

  Source: www.npr.org

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