#rice

I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...] ↗

— Lauren Child

#change

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#american #american consumers #billion #cannot #consumers

Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can. ↗

— Al Davis

#best #best way #decision #him #honestly

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#galaxy #mind #misinformation #priceless

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bad #bad news #bunch #competition #consumers

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cuts #demand #directly #economy #effect

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market. ↗

— Gray Davis

#deregulated #energy #energy companies #flawed #had

I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in. ↗

— Frank Black

#charge #companies #dictate #everyone #everything

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#any #bring #bush #bush administration #comprehensive

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#amount #anything #exchange #price #you