Fossil fuel quotes

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◆ Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

- David Suzuki100

◆ 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.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

- Dennis Weaver99

◆ 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.

- Lee R Raymond99

◆ I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

- Lee R Raymond99

◆ The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

- John Olver99

◆ As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

- John McHugh99

◆ In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

- Michael Pollan99

◆ The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

- Dan Lipinski99

◆ Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

- Dan Lipinski99

◆ There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

- Alexandra Paul99

◆ One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

- Lincoln Diaz-Balart99

◆ There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

- Wilson Greatbatch99

◆ The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

- Lindsey Graham99

◆ A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

- John Coleman99