Arguing Quote by Barack Obama

The fact that we're spending $700 billion a year on oil is actually a good thing; it means we have the prosperity to do…

— Rush Limbaugh

We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been…

— Barack Obama

The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year…

— Desmond Tutu

We have already used more than half of that budget. This means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to stay in…

— Christiana Figueres

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Finally, we will have at our disposal additional revenues from unleashing American energy. The Institute for Energy Research cites a short run figure of…

— Donald Trump

We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil…

— Ray Anderson

I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds…

— Jane Jacobs

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before…

— Allyson Schwartz

We've got to control our own energy. Now, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in; but also, we've got to…

— Barack Obama

I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.

— Barack Obama

There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet]…

— Jill Stein