Accepting Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

— Lisa Murkowski

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

— Barack Obama

We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should…

— Fatih Birol

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

— Michael Pollan

Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to…

— Jack Edwards

Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.

— London Breed

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

— Anonymous

We shouldn't have stupid cars that use liquid fossil fuels. Come on, how outmoded is that? We have to get to the point where…

— Christiana Figueres

Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!

— Josh Tickell

What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school…

— Kurt Vonnegut

...we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil...The best way to break this addiction is through technology

— George W. Bush

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

— Sherman Alexie