#imported

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#cent #consumers #domestic #doubled #gross

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#everything #foreign #imported #legacy #nation

They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#back #china #companies #controlled #earnings

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. ↗

— Emile Lahud

#country #democracy #good #good governance #governance

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. ↗

— Mae West

#domestic #i #imported #kinds #like

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#dependence #different #different meaning #different people #energy

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances. ↗

— Maggie Grace

#each #few #flavour #full #get

Most of the food imported to Russia came from China. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#china #food #imported #most #russia

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#continent #easy #imported #luxury #necessity

Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us. ↗

— Mike May

#break #clear #ethanol #fuel #fuels