Changed Quote by Laura Ingalls Wilder

If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

— Utah Phillips

On the Left, there is an emerging nostalgia on for renationalisation as a panacea for all our economic challenges. Every train fare increase, water…

— Priti Patel

There are new things we need to do in the labor market, in education, and in thinking about the future of energy sources. As…

— Paul Romer

Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.

— Charles C. Mann

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

— George Stephenson

The U.S. is becoming an industrial heartland again.

— James P. Gorman

“When steel mills can move to more hospitable climates, they no longer present a stationary target for government or union control. The more than…

— Walter B. Wriston

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

— Tom Stoppard

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

— James Howard Kunstler

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

— Hillary Clinton

We need to build roads, bridges, airports, locks, dams, and rail that work for this century - not the last one. And let's not…

— Amy Klobuchar