John Barrasso Quotes

We have grown up in a culture thinking that our energy resources were inexhaustible and without impact.

Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says fossil fuels are the energy of the past. We have more oil than we need. We'll never run out of it. It's all we've got.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

Energy is the issue I care most about.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

At an ever accelerating rate we are now squandering the capital of metallic ores and fossil fuels accumulated in the earth’s crust during hundreds of millions of years. How long can this spending spree go on?

In the United States you use more oil than water. Water takes a few days to recycle. Oil takes 4 million years.

Energy is one of the worst bottlenecks in the development of industry and the national economy

The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources. Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era.

Energy independence is very important to me.

There is no plan today to fully give up on coal. Experts point out that our supplies run for another 200 years, and it would be hard not to use them.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.