Fossil Fuels Quotes

Energy Independence

The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it. The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.

The Green New Deal fundamentally destroys our economy and does a lot of other weird stuff, too.

Oil is what this country runs on. You call it monopoly. I call it enterprise.

Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it is a relatively clean-burning fuel. It has a CO2 footprint, but it has no particulates. It has none of the other emissions elements that are of concern to public health that other forms of power-generation fuels do have: coal, fuel oil, others.

Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.

The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction.

We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.

Energy independence is very important to me.

The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

We have a military policy instead of an energy policy.

We don't believe carbon capture is a proven, scalable, commercially available technology.

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy…. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy.

Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

We must act to reduce the increasingly dangerous and destructive levels of carbon pollution that account for practically all of global climate change.

Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and they aren't likely to take seriously a candidate who denies the science and who is plainly in the pocket of the polluters.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.