Carl Safina Quotes

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

We must become more energy independent. The development of ANWR will assist in this goal.

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

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

Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.

If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, 'Oh, we're energy poor; we don't have enough oil; we don't have enough natural gas.'

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it's not going to be around forever.

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

... the rising costs and risks of these fossil fuels are undercutting the security and prosperity they have enabled. Each day, the United States spends about $2 billion buying oil and loses another $4 billion indirectly to the macroeconomic costs of oil dependence, the microeconomic costs of oil price volatility, and the cost of keeping military forces ready for intervention in the Persian Gulf.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

Offshore drilling is not the answer, it is not going to get us anything.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before.

If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

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