Clean Energy Quotes - Page 2

• I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

  Neil Young

  People, Ems, Burning

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• We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

  Denis Hayes

  Technology, Opportunity, Cells

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• I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Jobs, Support, Effort

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Moving, Patriotic

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

  Van Jones

  Cowboy, Energy, Clean

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• The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

  Martin Rees

  Commitment, Moon, Challenges

  Martin Rees (2011). “From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons”, p.60, Profile Books

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• I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Jobs, Growth

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• We can have enough clean energy to power every home.

  Hillary Clinton

  Home, Energy, Enough

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.

  Van Jones

  Ideas, Energy, Agendas

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, America, Energy

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

  Jeff Goodell

  Views, Energy, Climate

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on How to Stop Global Warming". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

  John Garamendi

  Careers, Desire, Energy

  "Electric Current Events: Middle East Revolutions and the Need to Revolutionize American Clean Energy" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.

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• We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Oil, Energy

  Barack Obama's speech on the Budget in Northern Virginia dale, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 13, 2012.

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• Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.

  Bill Mollison

  Technology, Air, Years

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• Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

  Stewart Udall

  Uranium Mining, Energy, Environment

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• A new politics can spark the clean-energy revolution that will serve as a foundation for a new era of human prosperity, protect the world's forests, stabilize the climate, and preserve the diversity of life on the planet.

  Eban Goodstein

  Diversity, Foundation, Energy

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• We need to do for clean energy what Kennedy did for space in the original Apollo Project: Set a bold vision that will light the fires of innovation and make a game-changing shift in how we use and produce energy. And nothing less is adequate.

  Jay Inslee

  Games, Space, Fire

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Government, Giving, Fossils

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• The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions

  Desmond Tutu

  Future, Years, Vision

  "Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

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• It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the environment and for the air we breathe. The use of biodiesel is a positive step toward minimizing pollutive emissions and greenhouse gases. By focusing on school buses, we can affect the health and wellbeing of the people most susceptible to that pollution - our children - today.

  Julia Roberts

  Children, School, Commitment

  "(PRN) Julia Roberts Joins Earth Biofuels, Inc. as Spokesperson and Advisory Board Member". www.chron.com. July 18, 2006.

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• Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Strong, Technology, Government

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Oil, Long

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Couple, Technology, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

  Jeff Merkley

  Jobs, Children, Energy

  "Clean Energy is an Easy Choice" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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