Climate Quote by Dan Simmons

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and…

— Dan Simmons

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and…

— Harry Houdini

The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The…

— David Deming

There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To…

— Wendell Berry

You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that…

— Al Gore

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980.…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other the container's inner wall. Principal problem was finding a…

— John Cage

The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual…

— Russell Kirk

Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago),…

— Matthew Simmons

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been…

— Fred Hoyle

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with…

— P. J. O'Rourke