Quotes About Gasoline

#1. He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart thudding, pollen sticky on his fingertips, July pricking sweat at his breastbone, the smell of gasoline and someone else's charcoal grill. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#2. 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. - Author: Major Owens

#3. Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors. - Author: Danah Boyd

#4. The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches. - Author: John Denver

#5. Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match. - Author: Stephen King

#6. God have pity on the smell of gasoline
which finds its way like an arm
through a car window,
more human than kerosene,
more unctuous, more manly. - Author: S. Jane Sloat

#7. Would you pour sand into the gas tank of your car? Of course not, your car was meant to run on good gasoline. Well, your body works the same way. Your body was meant to run on good food: fruits, vegetables, lean protein, and lots of water. Eat good food! - Author: Tom Giaquinto

#8. I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back. - Author: Ricky Schroder

#9. Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed. - Author: Thomas Sowell

#10. 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. - Author: Ron Wyden

#11. Station and said, Yup, there's the gasoline filling station. - Author: Christopher Paul Curtis

#12. All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday ... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people. - Author: Harold Lindsell

#13. I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money. - Author: Francis Ford Coppola

#14. 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. - Author: Tom Barrett

#15. This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. - Author: Joe Biden

#16. In the US and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day. - Author: Robert Zoellick

#17. 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. - Author: Gary Miller

#18. The smell by now was indescribable, a compound of burnt aging automobile stinks and the natural odors of death and blood - sweet as garbage, acrid as gasoline, the smell of a thousand rubber tires rolled in batshit and then set on fire. - Author: Michael Chabon

#19. 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. - Author: Sherwood Boehlert

#20. But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here. - Author: Tom Vilsack

#21. But thinking of Quinn and his future child was like gasoline to the flame of his fury. - Author: Alyssa Day

#22. There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline. - Author: Forrest Gander

#23. Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water. - Author: Tarryn Fisher

#24. The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient. - Author: Kevin McCarthy

#25. I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans, and my parents would be oblivious, as long as I was keeping myself occupied. - Author: Jordan Sonnenblick

#26. Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York. - Author: Serge Schmemann

#27. Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline. - Author: Mark Kirk

#28. By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire. - Author: P. J. O'Rourke

#29. Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years. - Author: Kyle Cooper

#30. Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline. - Author: Allyson Schwartz

#31. If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. - Author: Camille Paglia

#32. I'll pour gasoline on everything Dad built and we can just leave the Barns behind. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#33. The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#34. There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people. - Author: Gucci Mane

#35. A study in the American Journal of Public Health estimated that every $1 increase in the price of gasoline is associated with an additional 1,500 motorcycle deaths annually.10 - Author: Charles Wheelan

#36. Content is the fire. Social media is the gasoline. - Author: Jay Baer

#37. Haven't you heard? Opposites attract."
"yeah, but you're talking about fire and gasoline. With him and you, it's more like pablum and sass."
"Which do I get to be?"
"Darlin', you are all sass, all the time. - Author: Candis Terry

#38. Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase. - Author: Luis Gutierrez

#39. There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark - Author: Sukh Dev

#40. A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage. - Author: Elon Musk

#41. Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. - Author: Edward Abbey

#42. 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. - Author: Chris Cleave

#43. 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. - Author: Paul Gillmor

#44. Will I like it Jake? In your place?'
'I hope so, hon.'
'Is it very different?'
I smiled. 'People pay more for gasoline and have more buttons to push. Otherwise, it's about the same. - Author: Stephen King

#45. The air/fuel ratio for any gasoline engine should be at 14.7:1 for it to run at maximum efficiency and the converter to do it work. - Author: Mandy Concepcion

#46. To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is. - Author: Jan Struther

#47. I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time. - Author: Tarryn Fisher

#48. 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). - Author: James Thurber

#49. It tastes better than a rock." Allie tossed back the quarter inch Harper had given her in a single swallow, then made a face. "Oh, God. No it doesn't. This is piss. Like drinking gasoline after someone stirred it with a Butterfinger. Or like a banana smoothie that went rotten. Horrible." "You - Author: Joe Hill

#50. This is the best of times and the worst of times. So what else is new? The bad news is that the Martians have landed in Manhattan, and have checked in at the Waldorf-Astoria. The good news is that they only eat homeless people of all colors, and they pee gasoline. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#51. If we continue to print new paychecks at the rate we've been adding them, that mitigates a lot of the damage of higher gasoline prices. - Author: Jerry A. Webman

#52. 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. - Author: Barry Commoner

#53. I know, I know, I know that I am the match and she is the gasoline and without each other we are just two objects void of reaction. - Author: Tarryn Fisher

#54. Un-soft answers only worsen the mama drama in my house. And they don't win many points with my coworkers or neighbors either. When we give an un-soft answer, we drizzle a little gasoline on the tiniest spark of a potential spat. It may combust and flare, setting off a big old blaze. However, - Author: Karen Ehman

#55. I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe)
I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan) - Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#56. By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind. - Author: Ed Begley Jr.

#57. The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent. - Author: Gary Miller

#58. Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use? - Author: Jared Diamond

#59. Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline - Author: Soulja Boy

#60. If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations. - Author: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#61. How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit. - Author: Kevin McCarthy

#62. I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure. - Author: Sarah Hepola

#63. Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one. - Author: Judy Biggert

#64. How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?! - Author: Adam Savage

#65. Travis took a step, but America pointed her finger at him. So help me God, Travis! If you try to stop her, I will douse you with gasoline and light you on fire while you sleep! - Author: Jamie McGuire

#66. ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite. - Author: Robert A. Heinlein

#67. I still don't know what kind of woman I am. But as the flame nears the fingers that trust the match, as close as the skin can stand it to singe, I call this the nerve to find out.

-Self Portrait Of A Woman Standing Outside Your House With A Match And A Gallon Of Gasoline - Author: Ashley Toliver

#68. When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching. - Author: Edward Ruscha

#69. Content is fire. Social media is gasoline. - Author: Ryan Kahn

#70. I've been putting out the fire with gasoline. - Author: David Bowie

#71. We were gasoline rushing for a lit match. We bared our teeth. Balled fists. - Author: Nova Ren Suma

#72. The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. - Author: Carl Sagan

#73. After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'. - Author: Brad Alan Lewis

#74. Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. - Author: Vinod Khosla

#75. They actually have working gasoline cars, and motels and roadside diners. They even have halls where they pump in toxic fumes so you can smell how it was when we were kids. - Author: Stephen Baxter

#76. You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are. - Author: Brett Brown

#77. In 1897, a Scientific American reporter wrote that mezcal is described as tasting like a mixture of gasoline, gin and electricity. Tequila is even worse, and is said to incite murder, riot and revolution. - Author: Amy Stewart

#78. It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America. - Author: Jimmy Carter

#79. I hate her with the fury of gasoline set on fire. I burn for Jenessa, who deserves better than this, better than some screwed-up, drug-addicted mother, better than this chaos that always seems to find us, rubbin' off on us like some horrible rash. - Author: Emily Murdoch

#80. Although upon reflection, Jole wasn't sure of the advisability of introducing a keen young officer to Vorkosigan notions of initiative. Metaphors about fighting fire with gasoline rose to his mind. - Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

#81. Johnny James was sitting on the front porch, sipping from a glass of gasoline in the December heat, when the doom-screamer came. - Author: Robert McCammon

#82. I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel. - Author: Chris Paine

#83. Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars. - Author: Chris Prentiss

#84. Address one issue at a time.You can't load gasoline, pick up food, AND kill fifteen zombies at once - Author: Jesse Petersen

#85. We need more expensive gasoline to change consumer behavior," Mr. Jackson said. Otherwise, Americans will continue to favor big vehicles, not matter what kind of fuel-economy standards the government imposes on auto makers. Four dollars a gallon, he added, "is a good start. - Author: Michael J. Jackson

#86. One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use. - Author: Edward Lazear

#87. Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again, - Author: Michele Bachmann

#88. It's easy to reckon that the oomph to hurl even a Smart Car-size spacecraft to another star at, say, 20 percent the speed of light (and land it when it arrives) is the energy contained in 50 billion gallons of gasoline. The tank's not big enough. - Author: Seth Shostak

#89. Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. - Author: Harry Houdini

#90. Well, Mia, the guy told you he wanted you to be his wife and the mother of his children and you basically said he was a loser. I believe his exact words were She ripped my soul out, poured gasoline on it, and watched it burn. - Author: Renee Carlino

#91. It's the smell of life, Mother." Emily drew deep. "Gasoline, horses, the sweat of men, the perfume of women. - Author: Rachel Hauck

#92. Jess paints a pretty picture of an orchestra, but if we are one, then I'm the first chair violinist... who's been doused in gasoline and handed a match by the fans to watch me play while going up in flames. - Author: Ashley Poston

#93. I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter. - Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

#94. 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. - Author: Virgil Goode

#95. Since I walked in the door as secretary of energy, I've been doing everything in our powers to do what we can to reduce these gas prices ... So, of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up; we want it to go down. - Author: Steven Chu

#96. I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#97. He stank more than any human joe had ever smelled, as if he had been dipped in some ungodly confection of camembert and rancid gasoline brewed up in a spit-filled cuspidor. - Author: Michael Chabon

#98. 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. - Author: Jim Clyburn

#99. When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula. - Author: Brian Greene

#100. 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. - Author: Bob Ney