Quotes About Renewable

It's not going to help the country to be subsidizing uneconomical forms of energy - whether you call them 'green,' 'renewable' or whatever. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease.

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

Renewable energy, including from offshore wind, is crucial to the effort to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change, according to environmentalists and some elected officials.

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

In 2005, I had a blog, where people discussed topics such as a sustainable economy, renewable energy, and broadband coverage.

When I fought the Tories over climate change and won, more than trebling renewable power with a new subsidy policy combining state intervention with competitive market forces, it was world-beatingly radical.

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.

The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.

Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

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.

was nice to know, as one executive assured us, that without the Recovery Act "the entire solar and wind industry in the U.S. would've probably been wiped out." That didn't stop me from wondering how long we could keep championing policies that paid long-term dividends but still somehow resulted in us getting clobbered over the head. —

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

There is no credible path to reducing global carbon emissions without an enormous expansion of nuclear power.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy.

I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Our planet's greener future depends on nurturing our natural and abundant renewable resources.

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

We didn't wait for the renewable heat incentives to come into place; we wanted to be first to provide consumers with alternative ways to heat their homes.

I want to see us move from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable economy - if not in my lifetime, then in the lifetime of my children.