Tim Hamilton Quotations

We've seen a big increase in the percentage of customers who pay for gas with Visa and MasterCard instead of cash, and they also are shifting away from cards like American Express that have to be paid off in full every month.

If this keeps up, our quality of life is going in the toilet and they are getting filthy rich.

I can't say enough good things about our students. I know it's just the first week, but they're really doing a good job. We haven't had one discipline referral yet.

From here we go up and we haven't hit May 1. If we have a refinery disruption, we could see $3.50 or darn near $4.

Historically, every time we see energy prices spike, the country goes into a recession.

People are continuing to drive; consumption has not gone down much.

Usually the way school starts is the way it goes the rest of the year,

We don't have any problem getting kids to stay; the only problem we have now is getting them to leave, ... They're watching TV and enjoying the atmosphere, and they don't want to go.

While oil companies continue to blame crude oil prices and ethanol additives for the recent gasoline price spikes in California, the chief cause is increased profiteering by oil companies that have previously posted world record profits.

We would be at where we are today if Katrina had never happened.

The price increase started clear back in April. These increases were long under way.

We could probably be as high as $3.25 (for regular unleaded) in another week.

They raised money from there. They had big sales. People would just drop in here and just buy all the barbecue in the world and that's how they built the volunteer fire department.

The continued failure of California officials to compel refiners to create more refining capacity and increase inventories will result in gasoline prices rising to $4 per gallon relatively soon, ... The system is rigged for price spikes and the refiners know it.

In 1974, people either paid by cash or a revolving credit card where the balances were paid off every month.

If the price goes up and stays up in the Southeast, the oil companies will take some gas and ship it around there.

If Congress does not address the exports problem, company simply will pocket tax breaks. Any actual increase in production occurring in the U.S. will likely to find its way out of the county and prices will continue to climb.