Gaylord Nelson Quotes

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

I drive an electric car.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

It's a pipe dream, but for me, I've always wanted a Tesla. I would never have to go to a gas station.

I'm a part of a new generation of drivers that will only drive electric.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.

The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale.

Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.