Citations:dinosaur juice

English citations of dinosaur juice

Noun: "(slang, humorous) petroleum"

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• 1986, Implementation of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, June 3 and 5, 1986, page 499:

  An imaginative manufacturer will take over the commuter market in the classic Volkswagen strategy, as soon as lightweight storage supplies the mileage range, gasoline prices supply the incentive and, perhaps, an act of Congress formalizes the end of vehicular dependence on dinosaur juice.

• 1987, Road and Track, Volume 39, page 163:

  It seems that Friday night, after the last practice session, the organizers of the event had restocked the fuel reservoir with dinosaur juice of lower than expected quality. Although it was claimed that the stuff was local premium grade, accusations were flying as to its octane rating, density, volatility and any other measurable parameter.

• 1991, Road and Track, Volume 43, page 64:

  Its fuel tank will hold 26.4 gal. of dinosaur juice.

• 1993, Sustainable Cities: Concepts and Strategies for Eco-City Development (eds. Bob Walter, Lois Arkin, & Richard W. Crenshaw), Eco-Home Media (1992), →ISBN, page 290:

  "Just think, kids, grandfather drove this petro-pig everyday by himself just to get to work. You know what it eats, dinosaur juice. They sure did funny things in the old fossil fuel folly days."

• 1994, Wes Nisker, If You Don't Like the News, Go Out and Make Some of Your Own, Ten Speed Press (1994), →ISBN, unknown page:

  Someone ought to tell OPEC ministers how unliveable their deserts will be if global warming continues, and suggest that it might be wise if they cut back on oil production for a while. "Just dole out that ol, dinosaur juice slowly, boys, or else we will all be following those tiny-brained giants down the road to ruin-car-nation!"

• 1999, Jean-Jacques Jura & Rodney Norman Bardin, Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio, McFarland & Company (1999), →ISBN, page 157:

  Within the first 50 years of drilling 2,400 wells, over 859,000,000 barrels of petroleum were extracted in Signal Hill and the Long Beach area. The new darling of Long Beach was dinosaur juice, not celluloid, with the city going wild over the revenues generated by the plentiful natural resource oozing below the former stages of the city's movie community.

• 2001, Hallie Warshaw & Jake Miller, Get Out: Outdoor Activities Kids Can Enjoy Everywhere (Except Indoors), Sterling Publishing Company (2003), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Stay away from the street. That's where the biggest beasts run on dinosaur juice and come roaring through at high speeds.

• 2002, George Bowering & Ryan Knighton, Cars, Coach House Books (2002), →ISBN, page 80:

  That's where most of those drivers think they are, on TV in that commercial, guiltless and free to burn dinosaur juice all along the toll-free highway and farting lemon-scented oxygen out the back of their eight-cylinder self-expression.

• 2002, Paul Wood, False Confessions: A Life in Hawaiʻi, Flying Rabbit Press (2002), →ISBN, page 113:

  […] but most of all why are we robbing our grandchildren by wantonly burning up all the world's dinosaur juice?

• 2003, Aaron P. Frank, Honda Motorcycles, MBI Publishing Company (2003), →ISBN, page 188:

  And that's just what runs on dinosaur juice — Honda also manufactures electric bicycles and carts and is constantly experimenting with solar- and other ultralow- and zero-emissions vehicles, as well as running one of the most advanced robotics labs in the world.

• 2003, Frank Turner Hollon, Life Is a Strange Place, MacAdam/Cage (2003), →ISBN, page 52:

  It seems impossible for man, any man, or woman for that matter, to build an engine out of the Earth, pour in a gallon of dinosaur juice, bolt together a few rubber wheels on each side, and then make it all move along together on command.

• 2004, Dennis Barton, Red Star 4: Victory, iUniverse (2004), →ISBN, page 69:

  Only in the States, folks, did so many cars still run on highly expensive, highly polluting dinosaur juice.

• 2004, Evans Brasfield, 101 Sport Bike Performance Projects, Motorbooks International (2004), →ISBN, page 32:

  Although the lines between the two categories have blurred as dinosaur juice, man-made oils, and additives have all been blended into different types of products, synthetic oils offer some clear advantages.

• 2006, Paul Brockman, Clear to Climb, Lulu.com (2006), →ISBN, page 118:

  The entire underside of the truck glistened with a fresh coat of thirty-grade oil. Where it lay on the exhaust pipe and muffler, smoke swirled and eddied. The smell of frying dinosaur juice wafted my way.

• 2007, Willie Nelson, On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm, Fulcrum Publishing (2007), →ISBN, pages 14-15:

  One model is the status quo. It goes a little something like this: We suck "dinosaur juice" out of an Arab desert 10,000 miles from where it will be used. We send our sons and daughters, at cost of life and limb, to escort the black gold to our shores, where we all lap it up with an insatiable appetite.

• 2011, Chuck Palahniuk, Damned, Doubleday (2011), →ISBN, page 18:

  No, every single kid got there on a separate private jet, burning through about a gazillion fossil-fuel gallons of dinosaur juice the likes of which this planet will never see again.

• 2012, Michael Cosgrove, Imperfect Passage: A Sailing Story of Vision, Terror, and Redemption, Skyhorse (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  With such a complete lack of wind, it was time to burn up some dinosaur juice.