Gas Quotes - Page 39

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Oil, Worry, Leader

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• Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.

  Bob Beauprez

  Country, Oil, Discovery

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• How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Country, War, People

  Radio broadcast, 27 Sept. 1938

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• The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is.

  Dick Cheney

  Oil, Friendly, United States

  Dick Cheney's speech at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., June 23, 1998.

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• I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

  Kenny Chesney

  Years, Feet, Pedals

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• And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

  Clint Eastwood

  College, Thinking, Talking

  "Transcript of Clint Eastwood speech at RNC". www.foxnews.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

  Bobby Flay

  Giving, Cooking, Style

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• I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

  Bobby Flay

  Fire, Flames, Grilling

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• No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Motivational, Horse

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2008). “Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time: Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick”, p.160, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

  Josh Fox

  Law, Oil, Safety

  "Josh Fox: Activist and filmmaker" by Gerri Miller, www.mnn.com. May 2, 2012.

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• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Fear, Ignorance

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• Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

  Paul Gillmor

  Jobs, Oil, Important

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• Truly, to blame the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Thinking, President, Blame

  "Starting Point" with Soledad O'Brien, edition.cnn.com. February 28, 2012.

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• If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Opportunity, Oil, United States

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• I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.

  Lucy Hale

  Hurt, Thinking, Differences

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• I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.

  Alyson Hannigan

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Agriculture, Essence

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Business, Drama, School

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• Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

  Joan Jett

  Meat Industry, Car, Environmental

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• Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

  Penn Jillette

  Stupid, Insecurity, Waste

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

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• I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.

  Meir Kahane

  Knives, Enemy, Election

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• Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.

  Dean Kamen

  Jobs, Kings, Winning

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• I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

  Anne Lamott

  Sunday, Filling Up, Church

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• For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

  Mary Landrieu

  Taken, Government, Years

  "Sen. Landrieu: Government made recovery 'difficult'". "Meet the Press" with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. August 29, 2010.

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• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, Home, Air

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