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Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#environmental #excuse #extreme #gifts #give

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#dangerous #dent #economy #effective #ever

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#burdensome #cases #clear #current #efforts

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. ↗

— George Eliot

#done #each #effect #embarrassment #existed

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#banker #bus #containing #crime #fare

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#economy #efficiency #extent #fuel #fuel economy

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#companies #credit #high #including #insanely

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic." ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#energetic #even #fairly #happiness #i

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. ↗

— George Eliot

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