Bernie Sanders Quotes

If you're serious about climate targets, you don't build and expand the oil sands and move from coal-fired electricity to inefficient fracked gas.

Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.

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.

Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

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

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

The downsides of fossil fuels, notably their geopolitical and environmental risks, are not fully reflected in their market prices.

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.

People want smart energy policy.

I am a fan of an all-of-the-above energy strategy, and I certainly support wind as a large part of that goal.

Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to 'pick winners and losers.' They say we should run government 'like a business' and let 'the market' decide important matters. When it comes to the declining fortunes of dirty fuels like coal, however, they quickly they abandon these principles.

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.

We need a really credible perspective toward long-term de-carbonization.

Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy.

Americans want to reduce our dependence on oil. And Americans really don't wanna be contributing global warming if they can help it.

Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?

To achieve policy stability and certainty, we need to establish a meaningful price on carbon and cut the billions of dollars spent each year on fossil-fuel subsidies, along with well-structured financial tools and rules.

The move to a zero-carbon future is unstoppable.

Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.

Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.

We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.

A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.