Gasoline Prices Quotes:

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

- Alexandra Paul

topic: Government, Gasoline Prices, Car

Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on gasoline prices. I guess there was some justice in that. When you, the president, after 9/11, tell the country to go shopping instead of buckling down to break our addiction to oil, it ends with you, the president, shopping the world for discount gasoline.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Country, Kings, Gasoline Prices, King Abdullah

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.

- Rick Santorum

source: "Santorum blames 2008 mortgage crisis on $4-per-gallon gas" by Daniel Strauss, thehill.com. February 27, 2012.

topic: Gasoline Prices, People, Pay

If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

- Donald Trump

topic: Mean, Gasoline Prices, Over You, Opec

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

topic: Gasoline Prices, Oil, People

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

- Jack Welch

source: "Jack Welch Makes Some Worrisome Comments On The State Of The Economy" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. March 28, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Gasoline Prices, Credit

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

- Mitt Romney

topic: Country, Class, Income, Middle Class, Middle Class Family

The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years to bring any oil online, and it would probably go to Japan. It sure wouldn't help gasoline prices here. All the economists say gasoline is still too cheap in the United States anyway. So here we're having this huge debate over offshore drilling that is just straightforward nonsense, which won't surprise you.

- Paul R. Ehrlich

source: "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

topic: Japan, Views, Years, Offshore, Drilling

Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.

- Ann Richards

topic: Believe, Government, Years, Gasoline Prices, Government Programs

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

- Ken Salazar

topic: Running, Oil, People, Sticker, Gasoline Prices

Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long lines and gasoline shortages, just as there were in the 1970s. For the average consumer, a $1.60 a gallon selling price and no waiting lines is a darn sight cheaper than a controlled $1 a gallon price plus searching for a gasoline station that has gas and then waiting in line. If your average purchase is 10 gallons, and if an hour or so of your time is worth more that $6, the $1.60 a gallon free market price is cheaper.

- Walter E. Williams

topic: Night, Sight, Average, Long Lines, Waiting In Line

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

- Pete Domenici

topic: Tolls, Gasoline, Today, Pocketbooks, Gasoline Prices

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

- Byron Dorgan

topic: Hands, Pockets, Doe, Gasoline Prices, Opec

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.

- Bob Ney

topic: Summer, Gasoline, Hurricanes, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina

But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.

- Tom Vilsack

source: "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

topic: Opportunity, Oil, Unrest, Gasoline Prices