Agency Quote by Milton Friedman

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took…

— Rex Tillerson

Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of…

— Tulsi Tanti

“Wood was the main source of energy in the world until the eighteen-fifties, and it still could be. Roughly a tenth of the annual…

— John McPhee

The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced…

— Lester R. Brown

“technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels—especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas—needs to be progressively replaced…

— Raymond Barnett

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels

— Richard Branson

We must transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuels toward renewable sources of energy for the sake of our economy and our planet.

— Ted Wheeler

Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.

— Piyush Goyal

Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods,…

— Peter Roskam

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

We need to replace coal with gas. We need to leave oil in the ground.

— Isabelle Kocher

We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways…

— Ramez Naam