Fuel Quotes - Page 17

• Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

  T. Boone Pickens

  America, Gasoline, Natural

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• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

  Lucy Powell

  Yield, Fuel Prices, Effort

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Car, Want

  "Christina Ricci Interview SPEED RACER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 3, 2008.

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• In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

  Adam Savage

  Simple, Car, Black

  "Potentially awesome outcomes: Adam Savage on the courage to try". www.wired.com. October 30, 2012.

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• Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

  Cindy Sherman

  Nuts, Rude, Ineptitude

  www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Giving, Electricity, Transport

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• The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

  Cat Stevens

  Names, People, Hatred

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

  John Stossel

  Discovery, Self, People

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• You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Long, Growth

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• The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

  James Surowiecki

  Giving, Decision, Currency

  "Why Gold?". www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.

  James Surowiecki

  Past, Years, Oil

  "Pump Pressure". www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2005.

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• The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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• Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Impact, Water

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• If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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• Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

  David Suzuki

  Simple, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

  Ted Turner

  Moving, Energy, Dollars

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• Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

  Ted Turner

  Running, Moving, Wind

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• But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.

  Tom Vilsack

  Opportunity, Gasoline Prices, Oil

  "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

  Alice Walker

  War, Air, Water

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• What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Impact, Years, Iron

  "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now". Book by Douglas Rushkoff, www.wired.com. 2004.

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• A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Artist, Men, Creating

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Believe, Inspiration

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Needs, Dry

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Three Plays”, p.69, Penguin

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• Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

  Amy Carmichael

  Disappointment, Passion, Fire

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• Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Hope, Flames

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