Quotes About Coal

Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

Do you know how much coal China burns? In 2013, we already were burning 3.6 billion tons. And do you know how much coal the rest of the world burns? We burn more than the rest of the world combined.

Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.

Coal Town was primed like a john with a hard-on. All they needed was a willing hooker and it would blow.

With the first steam engines, the barrier between heat and work was breached, so that coal's energy could now amplify the work of people.

By striking contrast, there is not a single non-renewable resource that has run out yet: not coal, oil, gas, copper, iron, uranium, silicon, or stone.

This may also explain societal decisions such as banning nuclear power, with its tiny risk of a disaster, rather than reducing the use of coal, with its daily drip of many more deaths.

La envidia y la emulación parientes dicen que son; aunque en todo diferentes al fin también son parientes el diamante y el carbón.

Todo es hermoso y constante, Todo es música y razón, Y todo, como el diamante, Antes que luz es carbón.

The game was informed by the theories of Henry George, who proposed that profits made from a natural resource, like land or coal or oil, should be distributed equally among everyone. No individual, he argued, should build a fortune by laying claim to a collective resource.

The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.

I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity - using clean, renewable energy as the key - into coal country, because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.

As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.

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

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.

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.

The increase in coal production and the efficiency in coal movement are all administrative things that can add a lot to the economic growth.

It's as if we'd conjured up out of nowhere a second human population that's capable of burning coal and oil and gas nearly as fast as we do.