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  • I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. -- Pete Rose
  • Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. -- Edward Abbey
  • Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. -- Harry Houdini
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Serge Schmemann
  • 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
  • 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. -- Joe Biden
  • 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
  • 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. -- Kyle Cooper
  • Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people. -- Ron Wyden
  • I buy food and gasoline - that's it. -- Kat Dennings
  • Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper. -- Jeff Goodell
  • I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola. -- Adam Savage
  • We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will. -- Jennifer Granholm
  • Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe. -- Steven Chu
  • What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth. -- Brad Sherman
  • Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. -- Jack Welch
  • Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain. -- Paul Gillmor
  • Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource. -- T. Boone Pickens
  • Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline. -- Jeff Bingaman
  • 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. -- Barry Commoner
  • After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
  • 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
  • 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
  • High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. -- Major Owens
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 -- Gary Miller
  • 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
  • When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • 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
  • 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. -- Camille Paglia
  • In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices. -- Bob Ney
  • It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car. -- Elon Musk
  • Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly. -- James Surowiecki
  • My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around. -- John Piper
  • 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. -- Kevin McCarthy
  • 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
  • If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.' -- Donald Trump
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  • In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before. -- Mitt Romney
  • Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers. -- Scilla Elworthy
  • We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind. -- Paul Watson
  • Passion is the gasoline of social media, -- Jay Baer
  • Content is fire. Social media is gasoline. -- Ryan Kahn
  • I've been putting out the fire with gasoline. -- David Bowie
  • Content is fire and social media is gasoline. -- Jay Baer
  • ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Content is the fire. Social media is the gasoline. -- Jay Baer
  • Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline -- Soulja Boy
  • Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow. -- Alice Sebold
  • There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark -- Sukh Dev
  • How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?! -- Adam Savage
  • There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline. -- Forrest Gander
  • Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again, -- Michele Bachmann
  • The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. -- Vinod Khosla
  • Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars." -- Vinod Khosla
  • Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious. -- Pete Domenici
  • I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time. -- Tarryn Fisher
  • Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline. -- Mark Kirk
  • I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel. -- Chris Paine
  • The car bomb was fertilizer, gasoline, fireworks and propane tanks...still safer than a Toyota. -- Bill Maher
  • Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches. -- Daniel J. Mitchell
  • She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand. -- Steig Larsson
  • I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan) -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can. -- Allen West
  • You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are. -- Brett Brown
  • Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down. -- Steven Chu
  • If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline. -- Chuck D
  • Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline. -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk. -- Billy Sunday
  • Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere. -- Donald Miller
  • The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches. -- John Denver
  • Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline. -- Will Rogers
  • The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... -- Alexis Carrel
  • 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
  • One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use. -- Edward Lazear
  • The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. -- Carl Sagan
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Elon Musk
  • 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
  • Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it. -- Skid Row
  • 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
  • As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline. -- Jay Leno
  • 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. -- Gucci Mane
  • I took a shower under a fountain drink machine at a gas station because it beats showering with unleaded gasoline at $3.33 a gallon and rising. -- Jarod Kintz
  • 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
  • We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn't pay their mortgages because of $4 a gallon gasoline. -- Rick Santorum
  • 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
  • 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. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  • I want a coffee machine that runs on gasoline and drives me to work. We can make love in the backseat, next to the cream and sugar. -- Jarod Kintz
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  • 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. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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  • I understand that NASA reported that there's new evidence of water on Mars. I'm here to report that we still don't have any evidence of affordable gasoline in Michigan. -- David Bonior
  • The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline. -- Al Gore
  • 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
  • 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. -- Judy Biggert
  • 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. -- Allyson Schwartz
  • I told the waitress I wanted some coffee. She asked if I wanted leaded of unleaded, so I had to leave the restaurant, because I quit drinking gasoline years ago. -- Jarod Kintz
  • When you diversify your mutual funds, you are diversifying something that is already diversified. Diversifying mutual funds is like taking high octane gasoline & adding water & then adding orange juice to it. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Luis Gutierrez
  • 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. -- danah boyd
  • 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
  • He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline. -- James Merrill
  • The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance. -- Rodrigue Tremblay
  • Those lips had curved into a knowing half smile that did funny things to her insides. And like a match tossed to gasoline, her body sparked alive and flames licked every inch of her. -- J. Lynn
  • 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
  • What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use. -- Chris Paine
  • In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer. -- Gary Miller
  • 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
  • The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. -- Gary Miller
  • When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame? -- Richard J. Foster
  • 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
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