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Quotes About Energy crisis

Above the podium stood a decorated board showing the agenda for the day. The first item of business was the world urban crisis, the second—the ecology crisis, the third—the air pollution crisis, the fourth—the energy crisis, the fifth—the food crisis. Then adjournment.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
~ Marsha Blackburn
billionaire's death. After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic climate change. Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: "dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!" Normally, the newsfeeds didn't interrupt everyone's interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major
~ Ernest Cline
Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.
~ Evan Bayh
The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.
~ Bill Clinton
The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf was shut down and not producing.
~ Mark Foley
Unfortunately for the atmosphere, environmentalists helped stop carbon-free nuclear power cold in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and Europe. (Except for France, which fortunately responded to the '73 oil crisis by building a power grid that was quickly 80 percent nuclear.)
~ Stewart Brand
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
~ Barry Commoner
There would be no energy crisis if man knew how to effectively utilize the power inside of women!
~ Justice Calo Reign
As in Northern Ireland, children, shoppers, ordinary working men were all suitable targets. Bombs in department stores and pubs would have even more impact in the context of the widely anticipated social breakdown brought on by industrial decline, high unemployment, rising inflation and an energy crisis.
~ Ian Mcewan
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
~ Nancy Roman
In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.
~ Lois Capps
Britain's energy markets were a mess in 2010.
~ Ed Davey
Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.
~ Thomas Sowell
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.
~ Lucy Powell
President Bush spoke with the Amish. He didn't want to, but it was the only group he could find that wasn't upset about the high price of gas.
~ Jay Leno
As the Yale historian Paul Sabin has written, the oil shock "seemingly confirmed the thesis of The Limits to Growth.
~ Charles C. Mann
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
~ George W. Bush
When the 55 mph speed limit came in and the oil crisis caused fuel rationing, the truckers began to look like the last American cowboys.
~ Hal Needham
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
~ Barbara Castle
The Green New Deal would usher the entire country into a literal energy dark age, and California-style blackouts would become routine nationwide.
~ Lauren Boebert
An energy crisis will never stop motor-mouths.
~ Raven's Ravings, c.1979
A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.
~ Jane McGonigal