Big oil Quote by Alex Epstein

“The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or 'climate' or 'temperature.' It's 'development.' [...] Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.”

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Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature.

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America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right…

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I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and…

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Social Security should be phased out and ended altogether. ... Social Security in any form is morally irredeemable. We should be debating, not how…

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The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through work... .…

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Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

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To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

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The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

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“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after…

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One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

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[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing.…

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