Gasoline Quotes - Page 7

• Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Children, Buckets, Sun

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• What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.

  Chris Paine

  Oil, Car, Energy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are not a ton of people buying cars - cars are expensive. So people usually go for the cheapest car they can get. And if the price of gasoline falls again, it makes the savings that you get with an electric car harder to realize.

  Chris Paine

  Fall, People, Car

  "The Electric Car Strikes Back?". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 2, 2011.

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• You take the huge income that comes with a big gas tax, and you use it to pay off regressive taxes like the FICA [Federal Insurance Contributions Act] tax. You can help the poor in other ways besides giving them cheap gas. You want to send the message that people want to be as efficient as possible using gasoline until we can transition away from that need entirely.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Giving, Transition

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The car bomb was fertilizer, gasoline, fireworks and propane tanks...still safer than a Toyota.

  Bill Maher

  Car, Tanks, Bombs

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• Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

  danah boyd

  Grease, Networking, Machines

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When you diversify your mutual funds, you are diversifying something that is already diversified. Diversifying mutual funds is like taking high octane gasoline & adding water & then adding orange juice to it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Orange Juice, Water, Mutual Fund

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• From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes, money or political power or solve problems that politics has already created, such as silos full of subsidized wheat or a shortage of gasoline due to the maze of controls on refining.

  Robert Prechter

  Government, Pyramids, Political

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• I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Civilization, Chemistry, Harvard

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.112, Penguin

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• The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the environment; Dole said that if there was just some way this could interfere with people's sex lives, it would be perfect legislation.

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, Sex, Cutting

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• When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

  Edward Ruscha

  Book, People, Looks

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• If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  War, Cutting, Fire

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• If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.

  Chuck D

  Filled Up, Water, Empty

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• There's a lot of things that haven't been communicated to our communities. I didn't know these things myself. I didn't know that if you ate cheap food, it was like buying cheap gasoline, and there was a reason why after an hour you get headaches, or youhypoglycemic.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Community, Buying, Reason Why

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• To restore our inflamed atmosphere to a hospitable state requires nothing less than rewiring the entire globe - and replace every oil-burning furnace, every gasoline-burning car, every coal-burning generating plant, with renewable, climate-friendly energy sources. The earth's fossil fuel resources have blessed us with a level of prosperity and abundance unimaginable a century ago. Today they are propelling us forward into a century of disintegration.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Blessed, Oil, Car

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• We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated. That's what I'm talking about, is that we have a regulatory system that is biased to protect profit and not to protect people. We need a much more precautionary and proactive regulatory system that is not influenced by the revolving door.

  Jill Stein

  Doors, Talking, People

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Book, Bills, Argument

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.

  Jan Struther

  Life, Time, Years

  Jan Struther (1946). “A Pocket Full of Pebbles”

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• Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline

  Soulja Boy

  Gas

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• Content is the fire. Social media is the gasoline.

  Jay Baer

  Fire, Media, Social

  Jay Baer (2013). “Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype”, p.93, Penguin

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• When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  War, Electric Power, People

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• Conoco will build a $75 million plant to see if a process to convert natural gas to liquid fuel is profitable. It has to be. In California, gasoline is so expensive that people are trying to run their cars on cocaine.

  Argus Hamilton

  Running, California, People

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• The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

  James Fallows

  Party, Ignorance, Hands

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• The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Dust, Cities

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• People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

  Ken Salazar

  Running, Gasoline Prices, Oil

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