Barrels Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles…If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance…

— Peter Welch

Although the United States cannot unilaterally lower the price of oil, it can reduce its consumption by using oil more efficiently and by developing…

— Richard Thaler

Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person…

— Stewart Udall

“A quick way to improve food-related fuel economy would be to buy a quart of motor oil and drink it.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades.…

— Stephen Emmott

To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America -…

— Michael Pollan

The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.

— Harley Pasternak

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

— Barack Obama

If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, 'Oh,…

— Rex Tillerson

“Americans put almost as much fossil fuel into our refrigerators as our cars. We're consuming about 400 gallons of oil per year per citizin…

— Steven L. Hopp