Energy Use Quotes

• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  Ralph Nader

  Fun, Green World, Oil

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• Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

  Jimmy Carter

  Running, Oil, Energy

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• We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

  Wendell Berry

  Abuse, Energy, Fuel

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world's goods and converts them into garbage, sewage, and noxious fumes-for none of which have we found a use.

  Wendell Berry

  Money, Home, School

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• Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

  David R. Brower

  Years, Luxury, Energy

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• The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Stars, Texas, Office

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• We want to see...the efficient production and use of energy, so that the products we produce and the way we produce them pose no threat to the world's natural environment...economic development...so that more and more of the world's population can enjoy...the things which the energy industry supplies...(and) a society in which ideas and knowledge move freely.

  John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

  Moving, Ideas, Energy

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• This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

  Wendell Berry

  Ignorance, Character, Oil

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.

  Wendell Berry

  Two, Oil, Energy

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained.

  Michael Dolan

  Wise, Energy, Use

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• We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use and renewable energy choices are all we need to tackle both energy independence and climate change.

  Edward Mazria

  Winning, Choices, Simplicity

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• Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

  Amory Lovins

  Zero, Long, Goal

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• We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

  Saul Griffith

  Understanding, Energy, Needs

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• For decades we have been living lives of abundance, with little regard for our natural resources or global health. But we are now facing hard choices in our energy policy. Future generations - my children and grandchildren, along with yours - will have to live with the decisions we make today. And so it is time for us to make some tough and - hopefully - smart choices regarding our energy use and production before it is too late.

  John McCain

  Children, Smart, Live Life

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• The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.

  Christopher Flavin

  Years, Wind, Land

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• Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

  Alex Steffen

  Cities, Energy, Climate

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• We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Responsibility, Waiting, Energy

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.

  David Suzuki

  Running, Cutting, Opportunity

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• Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

  Janine Benyus

  Smart, Design, Friendly

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• Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Responsibility, Environmental, Energy

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Mean, Design, Looks

  "Riverwalk architect sees revival in city". Interview with Ally Marotti, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.

  Gina McCarthy

  Impact, Decision, Cost

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• Energy use, transportation options, food choices, water use, purchasing choices, participating in elections, volunteering for nonprofits . . . and within each of these categories, each of us can learn to live a more conscious life.

  Jayni Chase

  Water, Volunteer, Choices

  "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut our energy use. Do an energy audit or measure our carbon footprint using online carbon calculators that are free, easy, and cheap. Get a list of the ways that we can stop wasting so much energy and save money.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  School, Cutting, Carbon Footprint

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.

  Chris Paine

  Oil, Car, Energy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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