Dmitry Medvedev Quotes

Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

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-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

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.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

In the United States you use more oil than water. Water takes a few days to recycle. Oil takes 4 million years.

We won’t conserve our way to energy independence.

Every sector of our economy depends on affordable energy… The state of American energy must be good in order for our economy to thrive.

Just refrigerator efficiency saves more energy than all that we're generating from renewables, excluding hydroelectric power... I cannot impress upon you how important energy efficiency is.

Our oil policy should be to find more and use less.

The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child's play.