Al Gore Quotes

Sellers of all fuels, whatever their conflicts, can stand in harmony on the platform of high oil prices.

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.

We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

Deregulation [of electricity] does not work unless you have more power than you need.

The world’s demand for energy will never stop.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.

Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing.

Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

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

If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply.

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.

It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.

The whole first movie [Twilight] was pretty fun. I had never really done a movie like it, when there's such a big cast of people that are around about the same age. Everyone didn't really know what was going to happen with the movie, but there was a good energy. There was something which people were fighting for, in a way. They wanted it to be something special. None of us were really known then, as well. It felt like a big deal, at the time.

Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

I do feel like I have a sense of the times. A lot of the things America is experiencing now, I feel like I have lived through. I think there is a cause for concern.