Climate Quote by Daniel Yergin Download Open image “Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.” — Daniel Yergin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate Cycles Cycles Shortage Entire History History History Oil Oil Shortage Shortage Surplus Surplus Surplus Characterize
Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's. — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of… — James R. Schlesinger Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce. — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
“A man is a business failure if he lets his family life interfere with his business record,” — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets.… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
“It was very handy to have such a foreign scapegoat when so much was wrong at home.1” — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left,… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers,… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
