Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is not a very pretty picture. The higher gasoline prices had more of an impact that most had expected.

Robert A. Heinlein

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Ron Wyden

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.

T. Boone Pickens

We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

Even considering higher demand, there's been a rapid growth in gasoline stockpiles.

You have to understand, prior to the hurricane, gasoline stocks were already very low. We were already in a precarious situation.

We're swimming in gasoline right now. But this is not a sustainable level.

It would paralyze an already cash-strapped industry. Ultimately, it would probably make the price of gasoline go up.

Pete Domenici

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Soulja Boy

Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline

Jeff Goodell

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

Jennifer Granholm

We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

Gasoline stocks are rising because it needs to happen. Refiners know that they have to store supply for when they aren't operating and turnarounds are right around the corner.

Gasoline prices rose and pulled everything else higher.

Sugar is going ballistic because of the oil price. As oil prices go higher and higher, the only real alternative at present to gasoline is ethanol.

It's a world market for oil and that's why we have high gasoline prices.

James Howard Kunstler

It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.

As long as we're seeing a tight oil market, prices will stay high and may even go higher. I don't think we're ever going to see gasoline under $2 the way things are right now.

Heating oil is ascendant right now, while interest in gasoline wanes.

Governments are saying that 5 percent of gasoline must be replaced by ethanol, which is a huge amount. Where is it going to come from?

Bill Richardson

Hopefully it will lead to lower gasoline prices in the United States, ... The jury is still out. It's uncertain whether that will happen.

The first quarter was like the perfect storm, where you had Howard Stern, high gasoline prices, and lousy (General Motors) sales.

Paul Gillmor

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

Rick Santorum

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.