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Quotes About Gasoline

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.
~ Jeff Goodell
The idea that a tax on something keeps anybody from buying it is a lot of "hooey." They put it on gasoline all over the country and it hasn't kept a soul at home a single night or day. You could put a dollar a gallon on and still a pedestrian couldn't cross the street with safety without armor.
~ Will Rogers, 1932
På dagtid er det bare oss to. Balatov og meg. Foruten å bekjentgjøre sine seksuelle preferanser seks ganger om dagen stinker han som hestemøkk marinert i bensin. Dessuten bruker han enhver anledning til gjøre seg til kompis. «Jeg vise deg bilde av svart. Er på rom. Kom.»
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off (31).
~ James Thurber
People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.
~ Ken Salazar
If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
~ Byron Dorgan
Do not siphon gas with your mouth.
~ Tim Hawkins
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
Sei venuto in macchina?...Come va? -A benzina. -TU, come va, pirlone!...Hai trovato posto? -No, sto sempre da Ravasciò. -Ssssì...Dicevo da parcheggiare..
~ Tiziano Sclavi
As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.
~ Paul Gillmor
Here is where the electric car can gain traction. While an electric car may cost more, its operating costs will be lower because the costs of electricity per mile will be lower than that for gasoline (unless internal combustion engines become much more efficient). So if you're running a massive fleet of cars that is working most of the time, the electric car becomes compelling. Moreover, the recharging conundrum can be solved with a central charging location.
~ Daniel Yergin
The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.
~ Chris Cleave
The gasoline flowing through the pump made a high pitched sound, as if the screaming of my family was still dissolved in it" [p.181].
~ Chris Cleave
The sun set. The car smelled of its owner's cigarette smoke. Everything was toxic and chemical and unnatural: the plastic walnut trim, the electric lights, the burning gasoline that was shoving them forward. This whole world was a processed petroleum product.
~ Lev Grossman
The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.
~ Kevin McCarthy
I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.
~ Ron Wyden
Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel.
~ Peter Roskam
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
Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use?
~ Jared Diamond
Brazil does not want to become an exporter of crude oil. No. We want to be a country that exports oil byproducts - more gasoline, high-quality oil - and to strengthen the petrochemical industry.
~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
The price collapse was slowing the development of new supplies. Low prices were also stimulating demand. In 2015, the growth in world oil consumption was more than twice what it had been in 2014. With cheaper gasoline, the share of SUVs and light trucks sold in the United States rose from under the 50 percent it had been in 2012 to 60 percent in 2015.
~ Daniel Yergin
Derek turned out to be spectacularly good at fixing cars, and he cured the Casson one almost immediately with the simple but highly effective addition of gasoline.
~ Hilary McKay
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.
~ Alexandra Paul
My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
~ Kate Moss