Chris Gibson Quotes

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.

You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.

We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way.

In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

Energy patriotism" ... We could all stick it to [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein today if we all drove 55 miles an hour around our Capital Beltway.

The cheapest, cleanest, nonemitting power plant in the world is the one you don’t build.

Minicars – Mini Profits

Instead of giving preference to oil imported from overseas, Washington should look to North American coal, oil shale and oil sands, all of which provide an affordable, abundant and alternative source of fuel. In addition to increasing cost effectiveness options for the government, it will also increase America's energy security.

I think hybrids are inevitable. The question is not the technology: it's a question of the cost and whether the consumer will pay.

Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.