Fossil fuels Quotes

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels

— Richard Branson

Behind every morsel of bread, fruits, or meat is a large amount of transformed fossil fuels.

— Vaclav Smil

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

— James Hansen

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

— Ban Ki-moon

“The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish”

— Tom Robbins

As we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide, much of which is absorbed by the oceans.

— Tatiana Schlossberg

As investments and as an energy source, fossil fuels have nowhere to go but down.

— London Breed

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental…

— David Suzuki

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy…

— Amory Lovins

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health…

— Jeff Goodell

I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some…

— Elizabeth Warren

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and…

— Lee R. Raymond

The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling,…

— Joe Biden

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly…

— John M. McHugh

We have to be reminded that we still live in a world that relies a lot on fossil fuels, and that transition…

— Patricia Espinosa

Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel…

— Charles C. Mann

We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from…

— Paul Watson

“Why are so many people afraid that we are running out of energy? Why do they warn of disaster if we exhaust…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Solar and wind are now cheaper in many places than some fossil fuels and within the next two years, three, four, five…

— Jeremy Rifkin

You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more…

— James Hansen

We import a lot of oil, particularly to eastern Canada, from Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, a lot from the U.S. So if…

— Elizabeth May

All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's…

— Jay Inslee

“re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest…

— David R. Montgomery

Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single…

— Michael Brune

“Climate Change. When we talk about our responsibilities as human beings and as parents, there is nothing more important than leaving this…

— Bernie Sanders

The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that…

— Jill Stein

Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we…

— Don Cheadle

“One of the great ironies of climate change activism today is that many of the movement’s most vocal proponents are also horrified…

— Bjorn Lomborg

We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to…

— Noam Chomsky

Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try…

— Matt Ridley

“We are fossil fuel addicts. What happens when drug addicts detox? They can be rash, cranky, even psychotic and dangerous. It would…

— Russell Gold

“Shortly after Bush took office, a government scientist prepared testimony for a Congressional committee on the dangerous effects of industrial uses of…

— Howard Zinn

“But these assumptions could not accomplish much on their own. What gave them power, and made them able finally to dominate and…

— Wendell Berry

“The principal energy sources of our present industrial civilization are the so-called fossil fuels. We burn wood and oil, coal and natural…

— Carl Sagan

“Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when…

— Naomi Klein

Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.

— Paul Driessen

For as long as we're using fossil fuels at all, globally, Canadians should be using Canadian sources.

— Elizabeth May

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

— Jim Wallis

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

— Lee Iacocca