Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it's not going to be around forever.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

We will run out of air long before we run out of oil.

America is addicted to oil.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

We cannot drill our way out of our addiction to oil.

I think in the end, you know, we're just addicted to oil. We've got to overcome that addiction, and we need some serious accountability of big oil, because big oil, like so much of big businesses, has just colonized our government, colonized the regulatory agencies so we can't impose any kind of accountability on them.

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably upon us, and it can't be sustained. We're on an unsustainable path, and at this point in history we are responsible for that. We're going to have to change our ways. We're going to have to think through this problem.

We have a military policy instead of an energy policy.

Barring a miracle, this nation can never be self-sufficient in energy again.

The Department of Energy was created for one purpose: To obtain energy independence. Yet where are we?

... the rising costs and risks of these fossil fuels are undercutting the security and prosperity they have enabled. Each day, the United States spends about $2 billion buying oil and loses another $4 billion indirectly to the macroeconomic costs of oil dependence, the microeconomic costs of oil price volatility, and the cost of keeping military forces ready for intervention in the Persian Gulf.

Offshore drilling is not the answer, it is not going to get us anything.

There'll be years of teething problems searching for alternatives to oil, but they have to be embraced with passion because our oil is finite, and we're running out. Fact.