Best Fossil Fuel Quotations
126 Fossil Fuel quotes by 87 unique authors
-
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state…
— Jeff Goodell
-
There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to…
— Wilson Greatbatch
-
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.
— Tim Holden
-
As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
— John M. McHugh
-
Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to…
— David Suzuki
-
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
— James Hansen
-
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
— James Hansen
-
I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is…
— Lee R. Raymond
-
There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil…
— Lee R. Raymond
-
No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil…
— George W. Bush
-
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent…
— Bill McKibben
-
If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any…
— John F. Kerry
-
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.
— Alana Beard
-
Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.
— Ban Ki-moon
-
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air…
— Jeff Goodell
-
Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by…
— Bill Vaughan
-
An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks,…
— Charles Krauthammer
-
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is…
— Gerald R. Ford
-
I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition…
— Josh Fox
-
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean,…
— Sylvia Earle
-
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.
— James Hansen
-
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels,…
— Dan Lipinski
-
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the…
— Dan Lipinski
-
If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal…
— James Lovelock
-
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
— Margaret Mead
More Ways to Read Fossil Fuel Quotes
Who Wrote These Fossil Fuel Quotes
87 authors contributed a total of 126 Fossil Fuel Quotes, led by these top contributors: