Jeff Goodell Quotes

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

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

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.

I am a true believer that we have to change the way we generate and consume energy in the United States.

I have to tell you with regards to global warming that that's something, which, you're right, the scientists haven't entirely resolved, but no question about one thing, it's getting warmer, and a lot of good reasons for us to use less energy, to use it more efficiently and to develop sources here in this country that could allow us to be more independent of foreign sources.

Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

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.

For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

The key thing is to get off our reliance on fossil fuel.

If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

We should be looking at the bigger picture. It's all very well going around driving our Priuses, but we have to look to our governments to make us less reliant on oil.

We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.

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

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example.

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.