Winona LaDuke Quotes

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

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

It takes energy to get energy.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

Natural gas is an important part of delivering energy, whether you're producing power or other solutions for customers.

The extremist agenda of the Obama administration is forcing unwarranted higher energy costs upon Americans and further threatening an already sluggish economic recovery.

Clean energy isn't just good for the planet; it's good for consumers' monthly utility bills and for the economy.

Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.

In the future, I expect to see bitcoin mining in places where electricity is free or cheap. You could put solar array in the Arizona desert attached to bitcoin miners, and instead of trying to ship that electricity all over world, you could ship Bitcoin all over the world.

Our vision is to have the Seoul citizens produce and efficiently consume energy.

It is important to take into account the total power cost borne by consumers after taking into account what they spend on inverters and gensets.

When the sun is sending more energy to earth in one hour than the entire world consumes in a year, any political play to undermine our ability to harness this energy effectively and efficiently is clearly not economical but it's also unethical.

Most of the energy consumed is for heating, cooling, and transport. By massively deploying green gas, we could decarbonize all that.

The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.

Energy consumption has to be managed by an intelligent grid when it comes to highly populated areas. Smart-grid technologies allow for the integration of renewable energy into the grid as well as energy from distributed sources.

Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars, flying to Hawaii, gambling in Las Vegas. We could live affluent lifestyles with half as much energy.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy