Energy
conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
-- Thomas H. Allen
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The two most
abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper
and cheaper… ~ Ed Begley,
Jr. |
Under
the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an
energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless
reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline
and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or
use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public
transportation. -- Wendell
Berry | 
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With its array of
gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or
air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline
engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is
the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature,
it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world’s goods and converts them into garbage,
sewage, and noxious fumes—for none of which have we found a use.
-- Wendell
Berry
This
curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited
new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear
power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of
the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.
We don’t know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain
ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy
as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
-- Wendell
Berry
The
problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems
occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong.
It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate
executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also
our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.
-- Wendell
Berry
Biofuels
are the future of energy in this nation and around the world
-- Rod Blagojevich
We've
embarked on the beginning of the last days of the age of oil. Embrace the future
and recognize the growing demand for a wide range of fuels or ignore reality and
slowly—but surely—be left behind.
-- Mike Bowlin, chairman and CEO of ARCO
(now BP)
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I believe that
the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands
the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically
cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
-- David R. Brower |
The foundation is
being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the
new energy economy.
-- -Lester A. Brown, Michael Renner, Brian Halweil
We
want to see…the efficient production and use of energy, so that the products we
produce and the way we produce them pose no threat to the world's natural environment…economic
development…so that more and more of the world's population can enjoy…the things
which the energy industry supplies…(and) a society in which ideas and knowledge
move freely.
-- John Browne, Group Chief Executive, British Petroleum Company
The word "energy"
incidentally equates with the Greek word for "challenge." I think there is much
to learn in thinking of our federal energy problem in that light. Further, it
is important for us to think of energy in terms of a gift of life.
-- Thomas
Carr
Energy
will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also
be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win
for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common
destiny. ~ Jimmy Carter
We simply must
balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting
now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us. ~
Jimmy Carter
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I know that nuclear
is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy
is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste we already have
and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options
such as wind and solar.
-- Sheryl Crow
the cheapest
energy is the energy you don't use in the first place. --
Sheryl Crow
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