Barack Obama Quotes

Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.

The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.

By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

We should be moving vigorously towards renewable energy. The technology of which is right here right now.

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have not invested so much into education, we don't have the technology and sometimes we don't even have the capital to buy this technology.

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.

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

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will lead the global economy.

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

One of the things that we have to realize is we cannot get off gas, we cannot get off oil, fossil fuels tomorrow - it's going to take a few decades. Maybe we can shorten it, but there's going to have to be a transition time.

We have to be reminded that we still live in a world that relies a lot on fossil fuels, and that transition to new and renewable sources is not always and in all cases possible from one day to the next.

There is growing demand for renewable energy.

I always thought that using more efficient energy sources, pushing the clean energy technologies such as renewable energies are important.

We're very committed... to make sure the energy that we are delivering to our customers is as clean as it can be.

It's time to focus all of our efforts on renewables. We will oppose the building of LNG facilities.

Renewables need to be developed in an environmentally responsible way. And, you know, I frankly have heard criticisms from even environmentalists saying that some wind farms impact gaming and fishing patterns, whether it's offshore or onshore.

If there was ever a state that can transition to renewables and then get it on the market, it's us.

I am not going to give up on renewable energy.

Any time and money spent on LNG is time and money not spent on renewable energy.

I think it's really important as we position Hawaii as the policy leader in renewable energy.

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.