James Buchan Quotes

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

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

America is addicted to oil.

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

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.

Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

We can eliminate gasoline in this country in 25 years.

Oil companies have played a role in suppressing the development of alternative fuels.

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

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.

With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.