Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it.  Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level.  As Simba once told us: “It’s the circle of life.” 

—Jon Stewart

Kilometers are shorter than miles.  Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers. 

—George Carlin

I figured out Karl Rove’s political strategy — make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls. 

—John Kerry

If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. 

—George Gobel

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.  

—Bill Vaughan

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. 

—Lewis Mumford

The shortest distance between two points is under construction. 

—Noelie Altito

Walking isn’t a lost art — one must, by some means, get to the garage. 

—Evan Esar

The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created:  Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. 

—Bill Strickland

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. 

—Steven Wright

That money talks / I’ll not deny, / I heard it once: / It said, “Goodbye.”

—Richard Armour

I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.                           —Ron Kittle

In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.   —Kathleen Norris