Gas Quotes - Page 20

• I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

  Pamela Anderson

  Stars, Drama, Rocks

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

  Peter Singer

  America, Going Away, United States

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• The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Oklahoma, Texas, Oil

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• Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

  John Sununu

  Panic, Politician, Gallons

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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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• When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

  James Surowiecki

  Risk, Cost, Done

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

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• It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

  David Suzuki

  Earthquakes, Water, Might

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• Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

  David Suzuki

  Oil, Water, Waste

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• Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

  David Suzuki

  Oil, Priorities, Energy

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• To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

  Matt Taibbi

  Running, Wall, Oil

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• Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Fire, Sea, Availability

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

  Eddie Vedder

  Eye, Gas Stations, Sandwiches

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• The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Believe, Greatest Fear, Cities

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• Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.

  Robert Winston

  Usual, Three, Phases

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• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  Naomi Wolf

  Ignorance, Oil, America

  "America's drought of political will on climate change" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2012.

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• The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

  Daniel Yergin

  Relationship, Russia, Eyebrows

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• Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

  George Steiner

  Book, Reading, Boredom

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• Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

  Richard Powers

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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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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• The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Humor, Science, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.131, Del Rey

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• On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Daughter, Suicide, Morning

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.1, Macmillan

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• If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fighting, Nihilism, Church

  "This Lonesome Place" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2001.

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• My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Crazy, Kitchen

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• I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

  Janet Evanovich

  Alarms, Nerves, Yogurt

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

  George W. Bush

  Interesting, Car, Waiting

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