Stephen Moore Quotes

What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

Historically, countries have made big energy shifts only when confronted with acute fossil-fuel crises: oil embargoes, debilitating pollution, or wars.

We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.

We've recognized that natural gas would be the fastest-growing of the conventional fuels: oil, natural gas, coal. And so, we see the important role that natural gas will play globally and, more importantly, the important role it will play in the U.S. in terms of meeting future energy demand.

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

We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.

Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'

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.

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.

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.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.