Rudolf Diesel quotes

Rudolf Diesel quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.”
-- Rudolf Diesel

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“Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.”
“To fight, we must have oil for our machine.”
“If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.”
“I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.”

Source : Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2009.
“When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.”
“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”
“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”
“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. . . . Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, natural gas-you name it-whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
“You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.”
“Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.”

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