Allowing Quote by James Buchan

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to…

— John Olver

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

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

Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from…

— Bill McKibben

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the…

— Richard Lamm

“Who is sitting on a commodity without recognizing its complete potential? How do technological developments or political events such as wars affect the demand…

— Daniel Ammann

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food

— Albert Allen Bartlett

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

— Daniel Yergin

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

— Bono

Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources of electricity.

— Stephen Moore

For the vast majority of mankind's history, economic activity consisted of finding energy and using energy.

— Li Lu

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