The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

I have a soul of leadSo stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

Our condition is most noble being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace.

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna