Petrol Quotations

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

When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

I remember a picture on the front page of the 'Sun' during the Brixton riots: a rasta guy with a petrol bomb, and a headline saying something like: 'The Future of Britain.' And I thought: 'Wow! Look at the power of that image,' and I wanted to get behind the camera to make these people three-dimensional.

No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.

With the national average petrol price at a record high, the Reserve Bank will not touch interest rates.

UK consumers are tightening their belts as they feel the financial pinch inflicted by rising petrol and fuel prices.

Negative factors for consumers must include the 4.2 percent collapse in the share market in the days leading up to the survey. Consumers may also be somewhat frustrated the petrol prices have not come back further.

Petrol prices are like a tax increase -- they take money out of everyone's pockets,

Petrol price rises are hurting our consumers. An extra $20 or $30 a week impacts what they can spend. The backdrop is not the best it has been.

Petrol poured down behind me and into the back. Luckily I had goggles on. It was panic. You dont think about anything, you just want to put the flames out,

Petrol bombs don't appear by accident, blast bombs do not appear by accident and certainly firearms have to be planned to be produced in the way they were produced.

If the rise in petrol prices in the producer-price data is reflected in the CPI data, there is a risk the inflation rate could be 2.2 percent.

Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body. It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?

He's different class. He'll be after a pay rise now. He's got a new car and I don't think anybody told him about the fuel consumption. Maybe he can tow a petrol tanker behind it.

I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,

On the streets of Livingston people have been asking why the chancellor has failed to do his part to limit the rapid rise in petrol and diesel costs,

Rising petrol prices and reduced domestic travel is a concern for regional Australia as few tourists will be passing through country towns, staying in local hotels and contributing to local economies and jobs.

Or are you against law and order, siding with those firing bullets at the police, throwing petrol bombs and blast bombs at police and attacking them?

I think if anything, interest rates will stay still or decline and that could potentially offset the petrol issue.

The amount of petrol he used, he could have quite easily have set himself or other kids on fire.

We think that it is about time to end the French exception that goes against European wishes and lift the TIPP (special petrol tax) on those oils as well as make them legal.

The petrol came down on both of us, ... I just remember hitting the deck and rolling and rolling, trying to get the flames out, hearing soldiers shout stay down, stay down.

The petrol came down on both of us,

With debt servicing ratios at record highs, house prices likely to remain soft and petrol prices stressing some household budgets a sharp resurgence in consumer spending seems unlikely,

With our fuel costs rising fast, New Zealanders are now starting to think along the same lines as Europeans and are becoming more receptive to smaller, economical passenger cars and vehicles powered by thrifty diesel engines. It makes a lot of sense when you can save 40 per cent on your running costs compared to a larger petrol vehicle.

Exports have been disappointing. Higher petrol prices and a waning of the housing boom contributed to the recent moderation in household consumption growth.

We've got a continuing threat from terrorism, the health service is in financial chaos, there's a possible petrol price crisis, and yet the prime minister doesn't even seem to think it important to spend time at his own desk back in Britain. It's just not good enough.

There is not a case at present for cutting the petrol excise,

attacked with missiles, petrol bombs, blast bombs, and pipe bombs. They have been shot at.

Confidence is steadily improving from the lows of the second half of 2005, when sharp rises in petrol prices and interest rates uncertainty hampered consumers.

Confidence is steadily improving from the lows of the second half of 2005. Relatively stable petrol prices and continuing good news on the interest rate front have settled consumers.

As I have told earlier, if you compare the body with a petrol pump, I've run out of petrol and running on fumes. I can say I'm pretty empty.

The ... shortage of refining capacity means that the wholesale price of petrol has not fallen as fast as crude.

The soaring price of petrol is now starting to pose a major threat to the Australian economy.

A petrol bomb was thrown down the turret. It was on fire basically from the back.

As of today, petrol prices at the pump are 14 per cent above the March quarter average.

As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Malaysia is the world's largest palm oil producers and palm oil is the world's most traded vegetable oil.

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.

It's at that stage where I think policymakers will start to become concerned (about high petrol prices).

It was always going to be a fast finish when the VIS boys got together and Brad surprised us because we didn't think he had much petrol left in the tank after being away for so long.

It was the first real sign that oil prices are beginning to hurt, not at the petrol pump, but for industry.

It looks like this could be a very cost-effective technology. It could be useful in automotive applications where components need to be cheap - for example infrared lasers that monitor the gases and petrol in the engine.

Consumer spending has been choppy over the past year in response to volatile petrol prices and a soft housing market. We believe that a recovery in consumer spending is now starting to take hold.

Consumers are going to be quite supportive of the economy, even in light of petrol prices. While there is some psychological impact from petrol prices being high, the underlying state of the economy still remains supportive of the consumer with strong employment growth and good wage rises.

The military have sealed off the area. It is very, very serious -- it's really adding petrol to an ongoing situation.

In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.

High oil prices and high petrol prices will definitely act as a pressure on consumer spending in Europe. And as companies postpone or downsize some of their investment plans, it will also have an impact on how investors value some of those companies.

The key factor that probably constrained confidence was the 4 per cent jump in petrol prices in the last week before the survey.

A Jordanian embassy car was the target of gunfire from armed men who wounded the Iraqi driver Jamal Salman Russen who had stopped at a petrol station to fill up.

The housing market remains in the doldrums. With the housing market still slowing and households under pressure from high petrol prices, interest rates will remain on hold.

The high price of petrol continues to play on consumers' minds. Shareholders have cause to be less joyous about the value of their savings. This strengthens the Reserve Bank's case to stay on the interest-rate sidelines.

The impacts are huge, particularly on the cost of living. Right now, different parties have different proposals, including a proposed reduction in the excise tax on petrol sales.

The increase in inflation is mainly due to price rises in cost-driven goods such as petrol and jewelry.

All of a sudden it is a big problem and now petrol prices are going up it's a bigger problem,

The good news for motorists and retailers alike is that petrol prices have potential to fall even further.

The current weakness in front month petrol crack spreads is unprecedented and is sending a very strong message to refiners about the need to sharply cut production.

The current slowdown in consumer spending reflects factors such as slower employment growth, higher petrol prices, higher interest repayments and a slower housing market.

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The figures are better than expected and although petrol prices have come down, there is an improvement in core rate of inflation.

All the parties that receive petrol revenue - including the oil companies, service stations and Government - need to be more accountable.

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

Our modelling suggest bond yields should rise in line with the US by at least 1 per cent. The X factor remains any flow-on effect from petrol prices.

You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.