Renewable Energy Sources Quotes

• Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

  Jimmy Carter

  Running, Oil, Energy

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• Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Struggle, Technology

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• There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

  Bill McKibben

  Wind, Oil, Coal

  "It’s Time for Interfaith Moral Action on Climate Change" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability.

  Jim Clyburn

  Environmental Health, Oil, Energy

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• 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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• 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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• The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly for folks who have to suffer the consequences of some of these facilities.

  Barack Obama

  Suffering, Energy, Problem

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced.

  Al Gore

  Jobs, Smart, Home

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

  Ron Kind

  Leadership, White, Goal

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• By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

  Tim Johnson

  Wind, Oil, America

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• 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 we're burning in 200 years. Renewable energy sources are where we need to be headed.

  Jack Edwards

  Children, Years, Oil

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• There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort.

  Erik Paulsen

  Moving, Keys, America

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• Turkeys energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

  Ali Babacan

  Fall, Turkeys, Bills

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• I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.

  Jerry McNerney

  Years, Careers, Energy

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• Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

  David Suzuki

  Simple, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Intellectual, Watches

  "The Perimeter of Ignorance". www.haydenplanetarium.org. November 01, 2005.

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• By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Wind, Humanity

  Denis Hayes (1977). “Energy: The Solar Prospect”, Worldwatch Inst

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• I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

  Lois Capps

  Years, Energy, Alternatives

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• Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Hair, Oil, Energy

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