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Quotes About Gas

the global food system now accounts for between 19 and 29 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions.
~ Naomi Klein
research in Canada has found that an investment of $1.3 billion (the amount the Canadian government spends on subsidies to oil and gas companies) could create seventeen to twenty thousand jobs in renewable energy, public transit, or energy efficiency—six to eight times as many jobs as that money generates in the oil and gas sector.
~ Naomi Klein
I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.
~ Ken Salazar
Fuel-efficient my big engine is not. I drove 38 miles and burned through more than a quarter-tank of expensive premium gas. Every time I accelerated I could sense a Saudi Arabian somewhere was smiling.
~ C.D. Payne
Since nobody is capable of recognizing just where and how much he himself is possessed and unconscious, he simply projects his own condition upon his neighbour, and thus it becomes a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas. The worst of it is that he is quite right. All one's neighbours are in the grip of some uncontrolled and uncontrollable fear, just like oneself.
~ C.G. Jung
The gas price is determined by the market and effectively creates an auction for inclusion in the next Ethereum block.
~ Campbell R. Harvey
Early astronomers said they were rogue planets, or the exhalations of gas from the Earth, or even the smoke of human sins that rose into the sky and burst into flame.
~ George Bishop
This particular hyena was short and had blue hair that stuck out straight up from her head. She saw me looking. "Like my do? I'll tell you who did it. Of course, it won't look as good on you as it does on me." She winked. "I'm sure. So how much does it cost to get a gas burner installed on your head?
~ Ilona Andrews
Neon signs don't consume much power, but they look like they do. A cousin of fluorescent lighting, neon is actually quite energy efficient. A neon tube glows coolly when high-voltage, low-amperage electrical power excites the gas within it.
~ Virginia Postrel
Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was because of its gas, because of its size, because of its struggle against terrorism that sometimes turned bloody.
~ Elliott Abrams
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
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
~ Sam Kean
Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace.
~ Tony Fadell
I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?
~ Janet Evanovich
President Bush spoke with the Amish. He didn't want to, but it was the only group he could find that wasn't upset about the high price of gas.
~ Jay Leno
Now suspicious, Wills called the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police. The nearest uniformed officers responded to the police dispatcher that they were busy putting gas in their squad car (although they were, in fact, drinking at a nearby bar),
~ Suzanne Mettler
Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine.
~ Swami Beyondananda
The gas, which is our main source of power, is priced in dollars.
~ Aliko Dangote
Nuclear power is cost-competitive with other low-carbon technology and is a crucial part of our energy mix, along with new sources of power such as shale gas.
~ George Osborne
By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.
~ Ron Lewis
I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
~ Charles Bukowski
Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren't we going to run out of gas?' No there's plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I'm going to get some god-damed oranges!
~ Charles Bukowski
My father didn't drive because he wanted to save gas. He needed the gas to drive to and from his invisible job.
~ Charles Bukowski
a company's engineers develop new equipment that can pump out more petroleum at a lower cost, the effective size of the reservoir increases. Not the actual size—its physical dimensions—but the effective size, the amount of oil and gas that can be extracted in the foreseeable future.
~ Charles C. Mann