Oil & Coal Dependency
Using oil, coal, & natural gas for our energy is as if someone said, ‘let’s build a civilization on dinosaur bones.’ Somebody else says, ‘d ...
"If you like buying oil from the Saudis, you'll love buying solar from the Chinese!"— Thomas Friedman
At its 1857 peak, New England whaling industry employed over 10,000 men and a huge part of America's economy. Yet, no one wants a return of ...
"Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating nor ...
What do a banana and a piece of coal have in common? Both are made of carbon and both provide us with energy. Coal stores carbon that was in ...
- former Energy Secretary James Schlesinger responding the American addiction to fossil fuels and our inability to be energy independent
The Dinosaur Economy is an energy intense economy that relies primarily on fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas that are derived f ...
"I have long supported a sharp reduction in payroll taxes, with the differences made up in CO2 taxes. We should tax what we burn, not what ...
"Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to create the stuff ...
"'Coal = Jobs.' Yes, for lung doctors."—Thomas Friedman, New York Times Columnist
In order to prevent climate change, the world has to switch from high-carbon, polluting, power generation; to new, low-carbon generating cap ...
George W. Bush famously declared in his 2006 State of the Union speech that "America is addicted to oil."
The world is in the grip of a rush to renewables. Dirty old King Coal can be excused for being tired and grumpy at times.
“...When it comes to climate change, it's the fossil fuels we insist on burning—particularly oil—that are the single greatest cause of globa ...
In 2010, 37 governments spent $409bn on artificially lowering the price of fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency. This ...
"Imagine if I was scolding my kids not to pee on the toilet seat while paying them per-dribble. I'm just saying."—David Roberts, Grist.
"It's very easy right now to talk about climate change as... theoretical, to talk about the dirtiness caused by coal plants as...aesthetic" ...