Barriers Quote by Amory Lovins

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

— Barack Obama

There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have…

— William J. Clinton

Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.

— Sharan Burrow

Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society

— Dave Hampton

Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are…

— Ted Nordhaus

It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to…

— Jill Stein

Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness…

— Fatih Birol

I actually argue that renewables are worse than fossil fuels. It's a physical manifestation of lower power densities. More land, more materials, more mining,…

— Michael Shellenberger

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

— Nathan Myhrvold

The problems that ail the U.S. economy and American society are one and the same: Both consume too much and refuse to make badly…

— Vaclav Smil

Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

— Phil Harding

Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs.

— Piyush Goyal