Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Peter DeFazio

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

Peter DeFazio

There is no free market in oil.

Sherwood Boehlert

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

Sherwood Boehlert

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

Sherwood Boehlert

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

Jim Dean

We lost an entire generation of coal miners.

William Scranton

The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century,

Seth Godin

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

Mark Harmon

But at the same time, it is a lovely place to work. I never lose perspective. You want to talk about hard work, let's talk about working in a coal mine.

E. Helm

He worked so hard so I wouldn't have to set foot in a coal mine.

Gerhard Schroeder

Such a coalition is completely out of the question,

Brent Wilcoxon

I was happy with the effort. Coal Grove's running game was too stout.

Jeff Goodell

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

Jeff Goodell

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Veronique Keyser

The death of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Roma, is in no way comparable to cartoons or the burning of flags. We cannot talk to you if you deal with this in this manner.

Rip Hamilton

You know you're doing it right when you feel burning in your hips and nothing in your groin. It gets my hips and my groin all on one page. I had groin trouble early in my career. I was using too much of my groin because my hips were tight.

Sylvia Plath

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Bill Dunn

If they would quit burning until it rains, it would help a lot.

Chris Wallace

My feeling was, if we're going to tell the story about people rioting and burning down embassies, it's part of the story to know what it is that has caused such outrage.

Doug Aitken

I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.