#mer

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades. ↗

— Gary Miller

#because #comprehensive #crude #crude oil #decades

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services. ↗

— Gary Miller

#billion #care #health #health care #hospitals

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. ↗

— Gary Miller

#consumers #demonstrated #distributed #fragile #gasoline

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. ↗

— Henry Miller

#american #anarchy #control #danger #flags

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. ↗

— Henry Miller

#brings #conscious #consciousness #curative #enough

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. ↗

— Henry Miller

#america #been #before #chance #fruit

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. ↗

— Henry Miller

#black #curse #disaster #i #i see

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. ↗

— Henry Miller

#democratic #disease #everything #expresses #herd

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#american way #cut #looking #oceans #off