Coal Usage Quotes

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.

Coal is a big deal here in Wyoming.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years if we continue to use it.

Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. [...] Clean coal doesn't exist.

To shut off coal, or to say you can't have further coal development, I think is the wrong way to go.

If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal.

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

Western countries can cut down coal and replace it by renewables; I will need to have more coal.

There is no plan today to fully give up on coal. Experts point out that our supplies run for another 200 years, and it would be hard not to use them.

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.

The fact is that any carbon legislation is designed to make us not use coal. So if you're a state that has a lot of coal, you're going to get hammered.

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.