Fossil Fuel Quotes

Fossil Fuel Quote of the day

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.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

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

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.

Fresh water is like a fossil fuel; we should not waste it.

I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and I think my ideas will help it make a better case for freedom.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.

I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don't want to be involved in this enterprise.

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. And it's entirely a rate problem at this point.

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

The great thing about cheap natural gas, again it's cheap, and it provides a cleaner alternative to coal. But it's still a fossil fuel, and because it's still a fossil fuel, it still emits carbon.

We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources.

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.

We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we'll try to push it forward.

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.