Energy Industry Quotes

• I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Running, Nature, Hydrogen Fuel

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

  Sharron Angle

  Energy, Would Be, Needs

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• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  Ralph Nader

  Fun, Green World, Oil

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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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• 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, Baron Browne of Madingley

  Moving, Ideas, Energy

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• We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.

  Josh Fox

  Energy, World, Environment

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• There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right policy in place to promote clean energy.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Wind, Numbers

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources. So why not redefine our agenda as the solution to those problems?

  Ted Nordhaus

  Jobs, Dirty, Oil

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Jobs, Oil, Creating

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Ohio does have an energy industry, but we're diversified. We're one of the fastest growing states in the country. We came back from the dead.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, Ohio, Energy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Girl, Vanity, Independence

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.85, Penguin

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• One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Secret, Energy, Ugly

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