Gasoline famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
-- Adam Savage -
If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.
-- Allen West -
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
-- Bob Ney -
Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
-- Bob Ney -
After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
-- Brad Sherman -
Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.
-- Daniel J. Mitchell -
There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.
-- Forrest Gander -
All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people.
-- Harold Lindsell -
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
-- Harry Houdini -
Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.
-- Jeff Goodell -
We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
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 -
The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
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 -
High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
-- Major Owens -
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 -
Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.
-- Melissa Bank -
Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again,
-- Michele Bachmann -
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 -
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 -
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.
-- Paul Gillmor -
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 -
Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.
-- Pete Domenici -
I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.
-- Ricky Schroder -
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 -
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 -
The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
-- Sherwood Boehlert -
Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline
-- Soulja Boy -
She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.
-- Steig Larsson -
Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.
-- Steven Chu -
Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.
-- Steven Chu -
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 -
Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
-- T. Boone Pickens -
I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time.
-- Tarryn Fisher -
With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.
-- Tom Barrett -
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
-- Vinod Khosla -
Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.
-- William J. Mitchell -
I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.
-- Chris Paine
