Adopting Quote by Lester R. Brown Download Open image “They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.” — Lester R. Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adopting Automobile China Efficiency Fuel Fuel efficiency Productivity Standards
In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from… — Aubrey McClendon Copy Share Image
So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced that the trend toward more fuel-efficient vehicles is not a fad. Gas prices will continue to rise in the medium… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on… — Raul Grijalva Copy Share Image
Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine. — Albert Wynn Copy Share Image
Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
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
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills… — Mark Shuttleworth Copy Share Image
Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with. — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
“If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours. — Adele Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
