Quotes About Fuel

Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.

It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.

Land is a great example of how we can manage and invest in sustainable infrastructure for economic, social, and environmental gains. Its use - and misuse - is at the heart of the challenge for food, fuel, and fibre.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.

In the bad old seventies, when Mondale was Veep, and the government still worried about things like fuel and noise, the Vice President flew on small, efficient DC-9S.

But now, in the age of Reagan, Bush mostly flew a big old 707, the Stratoliner, a Cadillac-with-tailfins kind of plane, so heavy, noisy, and greedy for fuel that no commercial airline would be permitted to land one at an American airport.

For decades to come, the English would burn coal primarily for home heating. The new fuel had still to be adapted to perform useful work. Burning it at home was straightforward; adapting it to industrial production, challenging and complex. Homes needed only a hearth with a chimney. Industry needed changes in coal's very chemistry. In the meantime, increasing demand soon exhausted the superficial outcroppings of sea coal.

Gesner concentrated on developing a fuel for lighting. He used the pitch he had collected in Trinidad as feedstock, conducting some two thousand separate experiments. By 1846, he had successfully distilled coal oil, as it was commonly called, from this bitumen.

By 1936, 90 percent of all US gasoline was leaded. Domestic consumption of tetraethyl lead reached a high of 5.1 million pounds in 1956. In 1959 the US Public Health Service supported an Ethyl Corporation request to increase the lead content of gasoline from 3 cc to 4 cc per gallon—because refiners had reached a limit in improving fuel through refining and were now losing yield to keep up octane.

10 Coal, with its ubiquitous content of uranium and thorium, releases more radioactivity into the environment when it is burned than any other fuel.

A cheaper alternative was burning coal—sea coal or pit coal, the Elizabethans called it to distinguish it from charcoal.

the Prospectus judges it "quite likely" that methods would be found to extract uranium from lower-grade ores. It mentions thorium as an alternative and much more abundant reactor fuel. (It still is, having not yet been used commercially as reactor fuel.)

The history of liquid energy is a history of pipelines.

A fuel's octane rating is a measure of how much it can be compressed before the heat of compression ignites it. Octane ratings at American gasoline pumps today, for example, range from 87 to 93. Pure alcohol has an octane rating of 105.

She let the fear burn inside her like fuel, making her voice even stronger.

He soaked the SUVs and the pickup tricks and the gasoline tanker

The spark for a relationship might come for free—a look, a word. But the fuel to keep it going would always be expensive.

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

Wrong faith. Wrong purpose. You can't light a fire on logs soaked with urine.

We can break down fat into specialized molecules called ketones, and one in particular that I've already mentioned—beta-hydroxybutyrate (beta-HBA)—is a superior fuel for the brain.

Fat—not carbohydrate—is the preferred fuel of human metabolism and has been for all of human evolution. We

Funneling anger is risky business. Anger is a powerful fuel, and one could argue that much social change has resulted in no small part because of angry voices. In my half century of living, however, I have seen too many activists become frustrated and worn out—made callous by failed attempts to make change, with their idealistic passion devolving into seething anger, or worse, thick hatred.