Fatih Birol Quotes

Your electric bills will go down.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy.

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

Industry looks at research and development for energy efficiency, lowering material costs, so on and so forth.

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.

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

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers.

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.

Our vision is to have the Seoul citizens produce and efficiently consume energy.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and our dependency on foreign oil, will come from energy efficiency and conservation in the next 20 years. Make no doubt about it. That's where everybody who has really thought about the problem thinks the biggest gains can be and should be.

We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know.

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

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.

You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.