Best Fossil Fuel Sayings
126 Fossil Fuel quotes by 87 unique authors
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If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible…
— Bertrand Piccard
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...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that…
— Michael Pollan
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One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.
— Lincoln Diaz-Balart
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Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels.…
— Christopher Flavin
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The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating…
— Christopher Flavin
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If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a…
— Bill McKibben
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Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.
— Amory Lovins
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At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources…
— Daniel Suarez
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Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.
— Hermann Scheer
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This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.
— Jim Wallis
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We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells…
— Albert Wynn
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Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form…
— Thomas Homer-Dixon
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Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the…
— George W. Bush
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You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
— Bill McKibben
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We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax…
— Nicolas Sarkozy
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We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
— Bill McKibben
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Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build…
— Andrew Simms
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We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels
— Richard Branson
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I ask citizens and governments everywhere to do their part by conserving energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels for the good of the…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future…
— Kenneth S. Deffeyes
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If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as…
— Adam Gollner
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Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress…
— Bill Mollison
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We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.
— Desmond Tutu
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It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order…
— Gloria Reuben
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I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain…
— Tim Yeo
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