Gasoline Quotes

• Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

  Steven Chu

  Europe, Energy, Levels

  "Times Tough for Energy Overhaul" by Neil King Jr. and Stephen Power, www.wsj.com. December 12, 2008.

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• Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Running, Business, Entrepreneur

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• Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Two, Enemy

  During a panel discussion in ABC News Viewpoint following the TV movie "The Day After", November 20, 1983.

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• Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Coffee, Second Chance

  "Down the River". Book by Edward Abbey, 1982.

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• I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

  Adam Savage

  Mixtures, Fierce, Fluid

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• I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Absurd, Seems, Ifs

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Change, Light, Inferno

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• A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations

  Gary Miller

  Oil, Differences, Competition

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• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  Barry Commoner

  Simple, Environmental Quality, Entering

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

  Neil Sheehan

  Mean, Car, Literature

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• Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

  Major Owens

  Fall, Oil, Pumps

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• What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

  Brad Sherman

  Science, Earth, Projects

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• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Shortage

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• Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

  Mike Rogers

  Majority, Records, Profit

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• One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.

  Edward Lazear

  Cutting, Worry, Use

  "Bush Economist: Gas Tax Cut Not the Answer". www.washingtonpost.com. May 2, 2006.

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• I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

  Janet Napolitano

  Running, Together, Steps

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• Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.

  Jim Clyburn

  Fighting, Cost, Healthcare

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• So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Oil, Choices, Action

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• Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

  Mark Kirk

  Moving, Government, Burning

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• Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

  Pete Domenici

  Gasoline Prices, Tolls, Today

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• The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

  Virgil Goode

  Priorities, Independence, Facts

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• If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Gasoline Prices, Over You

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• Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

  Paul MacCready

  Grandchildren, Environmental, Society

  "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.

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• There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.

  Forrest Gander

  Water, Refrain

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• The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

  Al Gore

  Oil, Giving, Energy

  "Energy crisis threatens U.S. survival, Gore says", www.cnn.com. July 18, 2008.

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