Cheap Energy Quotes

In the 2010s, it is not the price of bread that is falsely and unnecessarily inflated by obstinate politicians but that of energy. There are cheap sources of energy either available or possible, but there is a reluctance to use them.

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.

We are going to see with our own eyes electricity made so cheap that it would become a standard article for use, not only for manufacturing but for every home…. I know that this empty desert country is going to be filled with men, women and children, making an honest livelihood…

Using cheap and efficient energy makes every other American industry more productive, and thus makes American employers far more competitive in global markets. Productivity creates higher paying jobs in America; it doesn't destroy them.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy.

During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?

In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and easily available source of energy. We did, or at least some of us did, what anybody does who discovers a treasure in the basement - live it up, and we have been spending this treasure with great enjoyment

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.

Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

When you think about the real cost of so-called cheap energy that has driven our prosperity to unprecedented levels, for some of us, to our horror, we've realized that this has the potential for burning brightly and then snuffing out.

I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

The costs of solar energy across the world have come down so fast that its growth as a cheap, clean energy source has been exponential.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

It’s cheaper to save energy than to buy it.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

Relative to oil, however, natural gas is very cheap and very attractive. And I think that natural gas in emerging markets is very attractive. There is very little natural gas infrastructure in places such as China, where there is tremendous demand for natural gas.