Best Fossil Fuel Quotes
126 Fossil Fuel quotes by 87 unique authors
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Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there…
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe
— Barack Obama
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What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return
— Barack Obama
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The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those…
— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
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I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of me as these…
— Pat Robertson
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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
— Bill McKibben
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Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they…
— Ann Coulter
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We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels)…
— Desmond Tutu
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It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future
— Desmond Tutu
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Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
— Dennis Weaver
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Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.
— James Hansen
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As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's leading…
— Joseph J. Romm
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Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil…
— Van Jones
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Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
— William H. Calvin
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There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have an effect on…
— John Christy
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The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal,…
— Gwynne Dyer
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...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the…
— Unknown Author
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Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.
— Hermann Scheer
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Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.
— William H. Calvin
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I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
— Nancy Pelosi
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I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.
— Paul Krugman
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Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption…
— Maurice Strong
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The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the…
— Robert Pollin
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Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.
— Lee Iacocca
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