Fossil Fuel Quotes

• Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

  Margaret Mead

  Love, Dance, Song

  "Margaret Mead: A Life". Book by Jane Howard, 1984.

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• No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels.

  George W. Bush

  Alternatives, Fuel, Might

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• If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns, breakdown of social order, water shortages, and outbreaks of bloodshed and disease.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Tomorrow, Breakdown

  Source: www.marandapleasantmedia.com

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• Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

  David Suzuki

  Running, Opportunity, Energy

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• Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

  Dennis Weaver

  Oil, Addiction, Environmental

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• We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

  Bill McKibben

  Math, Fuel, Fossils

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• The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Climate, Peril

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Thinking, Energy, Doe

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• Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways.

  Sylvia Earle

  Fossils, Burning, Fuel

  "Her Majesty of the Deep Blue Sea: An Interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Impact, Water

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• I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Country, Interesting, People

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• We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.

  Tim Holden

  Research And Development, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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• People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.

  Satish Kumar

  Moving, Wind, People

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.

  Josh Fox

  Thinking, Energy, Transition

  "Sundance ’10 | “GASLAND” Director Josh Fox on Being a One Man Crew". www.indiewire.com. January 22, 2010.

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• We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Energy, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

  David Suzuki

  Simple, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

  James Hansen

  Long, Energy, Burning

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• If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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• I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Believe, Alternatives, Fuel

  "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. August 24, 2008.

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• In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Erosion, Fuel

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview With Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Aggravation, Priorities, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Moon, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  Dan Lipinski

  Loss, Energy, Climate

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• The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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• In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

  Jeff Goodell

  War, Moving, Reality

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