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  • We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

    Wind   Feet   Nuclear  
  • The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.

    Issues   Cost   Moments  
    "After election upheaval, politics returns to normal" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.
  • So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes.

    Airplane   Car   Fuel  
    "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.
  • I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case.

    "Can you still be the boy next door and live in a Swiss tax haven?" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2007.
  • It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

    Fall   Oxygen   Paper  
    Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.51, Egmont UK
  • A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

    Ideas   Tanks   Needs  
    MarketWatch, September 30, 2008.
  • What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

    Country   Peace   War  
    "The Power of Words" (1937)
  • I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.

    Thinking   Energy   Use  
  • I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

  • D'you know, I put so much petrol in me car the other day, I couldn't get in!

    Car   Knows   Petrol  
  • It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

    Race   Tragedy   Stories  
  • Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.

    Cutting   Order   Years  
    Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.
  • Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

  • In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors.

    War   Animal   Car  
  • It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.

    Crazy   Smell   Mad  
    "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, BBC1 Television, 1996.
  • The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.

    Hugo Chavez's Christmas speech at a rehabilitation center, December 24, 2005.
  • The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

    Two   Race   Enemy  
  • People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.

    Loneliness   People   Car  
    Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.86, Random House
  • I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shoulder and got my cans out. Then I filled up and set off again. That's how naive I was - so much not a cosmopolitan girl.

    Girl   Oxford   Filled Up  
    Source: www.newstatesman.com
  • The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

    Running   Car   Walks  
  • ...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.

    Dark   Yelling   Dancing  
    John Marsden (2000). “Burning for Revenge”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

  • When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

    Children   Pumps   Way  
  • We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

    Cost   Gigs   Pounds  
  • Food is fuel and it keeps us going just like a car needs petrol. When you're running a car it's important to think about what fuel you're putting in because if you put in the rough stuff, what's going to happen? The car's going to slow down and perform badly because you've neglected it.

    Running   Thinking   Car  
  • I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

    Summer   Hate   Light  
    "Here's looking at you, kid" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2001.
  • I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.

  • Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

    Home   Fire   Catholic  
    "Only Ian Paisley could have delivered that peace deal in Northern Ireland" by Peter Hain, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2014.
  • God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

    Running   Men   Car  
    C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.54, HarperCollins UK
  • Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

    Tough   Touring   Bigs  
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