Age Quote by Stephen Moore

“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels. When everyone…

— Bjorn Lomborg

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

“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

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

— Mark Ruffalo

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

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

Fossil fuels are raw materials that have to be extracted and processed. Wind and solar energy are different. The only costs associated with them…

— Tom Steyer

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

— Miranda Devine

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from…

— Bill McKibben

The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible.

— Vaclav Smil

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack…

— Sheldon Whitehouse