Food Quote by Michael Pollan

“As of now, it takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel to produce a calorie of food energy for humans—somewhere between four and…

— Lierre Keith

“Americans put almost as much fossil fuel into our refrigerators as our cars. We're consuming about 400 gallons of oil per year per citizin…

— Steven L. Hopp

“Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles…If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance…

— Peter Welch

Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person…

— Stewart Udall

America's prosperity has been built on cheap fossil fuel energy.

— Miranda Devine

“The point is that the overwhelming energy cost associated with food is not in the food itself (the 2,000 food calories a day per…

— Geoffrey West

If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.

— Kimbal Musk

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

Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so…

— Virgil Goode

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of…

— Nina Fedoroff