23 Tar Quotes for You to Enjoy

The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them. Donella Meadows

Government Natural People Speak Care Nation Greed Politicians Nothing Our Resources Our People Feather More Bearable Support Withdraw Practicing Tar Than Want While Them Deprive Natural Resources Actions

Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I crossed the road, like the absent-minded animal in a Richard Scarry kid's book. Alissa Quart

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada. Andrew Nikiforuk

Changed Fur Way Trade Tar Canada Same Sands

Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition? Andrew Nikiforuk

The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project. Andrew Nikiforuk

Construction World Become Energy Project Boom Tar Capital Sands Largest

The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future. Andrew Nikiforuk

Future Generation Become Inevitable Nation Politicians Energy Too Destructiveness Security Compromise Well Tar Canadians Energy Security Sands Next Who Tolerant

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it. Bert Campaneris

Home Game Too Much Fighting Too Bat Saw Run About He Knew George Were Pine Tar Umpire Yes Hit Where Much Next Next Thing Home Run Billy Thing

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics. Bono

Bible Mistake People Church Christian Jews Right-Wing Righteous Systems Charismatic Brush Because Catholics Traditional Tar Same Suspicious Them Working Whole Belief Christian Church Rainbow

I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape. Frances Beinecke

Health Struggle People Solar Wind Seen Become Increasingly Solar Panels Neighbors Visited Has-Been Recover Part Been Tar Familiar Endangered Oil Sands Sandy Landscape Whose Watched

Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil. Frances Beinecke

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile. James Hansen

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. Jeff Goodell

Business Nasty Tar Oil Polluting Sands

My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad and four brothers, and we would all beat the tar out of each other while the show was on, and it was all okay because my dad was a wrestling fan. John Cena

Time Other Late Okay Favorite Out Favorite Thing Would One Time Stay Brothers About Wrestling Could Beat Main Because Tar Up Where Fan While Show Each Dad Event Saturday Thing Four Night

The process to generate energy using the Canadian tar sands is particularly dirty, producing one of the most noxious fossil fuels on the planet and leaving a devastated landscape in its wake. John Delaney

For several years at the University of Virginia, students had an annual tradition of raising hell around campus, burning tar barrels and shooting pistols into the air. Matthew Pearl

Hell Virginia Air Several Students Had Annual Around Tradition Years Tar Campus Shooting Pistols Burning Barrels Raising University

If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom. Mika

Smell Bathroom Something Bottle Put Like Piece Doll Fridge Label Tar Tiny Them Really Plastic Keep

Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies. Naomi Klein

Change People Oppose Opposing Living Indigenous Indigenous People Poisons Most Because Climate Climate Change Tar Canada Sands Bodies Who Downstream Here

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast. Theaster Gates

You Creative Experience Ride First Sit Cold Dip Pretty Because Got Tar Quickly Get Heavy Then Really Fast

We need to ask elected officials supporting Keystone XL whether they're willing to put their constituents and our environment at risk so that foreign oil tycoons get a better return on their tar sands investments. Keystone XL backers will keep trying to sell us a sucker's deal; it's up to us to say no. Tom Steyer

Better Will Keystone Our Say Willing Constituents Risk Put Investments Environment Supporting Return Deal Foreign Foreign Oil Tar Sell Up Get Trying Officials Oil Whether Sands Ask Elected Us Elected Officials Sucker Keep Need

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar. William E. Geist

Consistency Pressed Caviar Tar Chilled

I suggest we take our heads out of the tar sands and look up to see the sun. We don't own it, but it provides us all with great, endless value. So, too, the wind. These free, renewable sources of 'energy currency' are perfect partners to what we own together. William McDonough

Great Together Value Free Wind Own Energy Too Our Sun Out See Perfect Take Heads Look Partners Renewable Sources Provides Tar Up Currency Endless Sands Us Suggest

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