Climate Quote by Tom Steyer

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

— Jeff Goodell

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent…

— James Hansen

Tar sands are attractive, but like biofuels, they will never replace Middle East oil.

— Fatih Birol

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of…

— T. Boone Pickens

Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not…

— Naomi Klein

“This single Koch refinery is now responsible for an estimated 25 percent of the 1.2 million barrels of oil the U.S. imports each day…

— Jane Mayer

The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and…

— Rudolf Diesel

I actually argue that renewables are worse than fossil fuels. It's a physical manifestation of lower power densities. More land, more materials, more mining,…

— Michael Shellenberger

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

— Vandana Shiva

There's no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per…

— Katharine Hayhoe

Among the most important lessons to be taken from the history of oil is not taking essentials for granted. Conserve oil, but also conserve…

— Rohini Nilekani

Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon