Gene Green Quotes

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What's changed is that new, larger populations are now considered expendable.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

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.

I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

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.

Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

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

Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.

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

The world’s demand for energy will never stop.

You can’t mine coal with bayonets!

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be the impact of energy on the environment.

There are serious worries about unconventional gas and oil, especially those concerning the environment.

Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

Tar sands oil is dirtier, more corrosive, and worse for the environment than conventional oil.