Energy Crisis Quotes

• 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

  Balance, Acting, Energy

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• There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Ignorance, Energy, Crisis

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• In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

  Lois Capps

  Reality, Energy, Way

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• Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

  Alan Cranston

  Energy, Fuel, World

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• Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

  Richard Eberhart

  Country, Long, Energy

  Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

  George Soros

  Lying, Oil, Humanity

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• The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

  R. Lee Wrights

  Government, Energy, Global Warming

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• The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Energy, Entering, Facts

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back

  David J. C. MacKay

  Moon, Ideas, Energy

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• 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

  Abuse, Energy, Fuel

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• 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

  Ignorance, Character, Oil

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

  Richard Eberhart

  Country, Energy, Natural

  Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. 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

  Children, Selfish, Years

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• We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

  J. C. Watts

  California, Energy, Democrat

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• The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.

  Joe Baca

  School, Issues, Challenges

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• 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

  Two, Oil, Energy

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.

  Russell E. Train

  Opportunity, Environmental, Energy

  "Letters", www.nytimes.com. February 18, 1979.

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• This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

  Jimmy Carter

  Real, Oil, Independence

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Issues, Air, Water

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• And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Real, Moving

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• 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

  Winning, Destiny, Energy

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.

  Hunter Lovins

  Learning, Heart, Science

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