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Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. ~Esa Tikkannen, 1979 In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. ~Author Unknown With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil. ~Mary Bono The poor are poor because the rich are rich. ~Author Unknown Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. ~A.A. Latimer Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. ~Lewis Mumford A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. ~Arnold Toynbee Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today. ~Francis H. Sisson Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. ~Edward Abbey I'm so poor I can't even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs - by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. ~Alistair Cooke Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. ~William D. Tammeus It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there? ~Dizzy Dean 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, Jr. Inflation is taxation without legislation. ~Milton Friedman When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. ~Frank McKinney Modern technology Owes ecology An apology. ~Alan M. Eddison Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. ~E.B. White Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau 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 The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Author Unknown Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. ~Author Unknown Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways. ~Will Rogers Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much? ~Kin Hubbard Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th. ~Author Unknown With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. ~Kenneth E. Boulding Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. ~Carl Sandburg The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841 The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~Ross Perot We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. ~Buzzie Bavasi When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~Oscar Wilde A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? ~Author Unknown A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I'd be too poor to need an anti-theft alarm. ~Gina Rothfels We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. ~Julian Huxley Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor. ~Author Unknown As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. ~William A. Niskanen, "For a Less Responsive Government," Cato Policy Report, 1996 Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen
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