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“With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.”

World Energy Nations Focus Source Development Cost Demand Clean Oil Around The World Rising Efficient Oregon Energy Sources

Author:Greg Walden

“Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.”

Wells Helping Class Cost Oil Fuel Global Warming Gas Drivers Efficient Vehicle Pollution Dependence Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Foreign Oil

Author:Carol Browner

“There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting them back to earth and using them in a cost efficient manner.”

Needs Problem Would Be Earth Energy Source Cost Efficient Locked Solar System Locked Up

Author:Wilson Greatbatch

“To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.”

People Ifs Mean Might Company Millions Products Cost Dollars Profit Efficient Incentives Million Dollars Illiterate

Author:Thomas Sowell

“... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.”

Government Values Interest Community Clear Cost Shapes Behavior Alternatives Perceive Corporations Efficient Prevailing

Author:Juanita M. Kreps

“I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.”

Ifs Trying Would Be Cost Entrepreneur More Time Efficient Cheaper Monetary Delegates Delegation

Author:James Altucher

“We've done a lot of work with our government businesses to ensure that we can get reasonable returns but at the same time that they can provide the services that they do provide to Tasmanians at the most efficient cost.”

Done Government Return Cost Reasonable Efficient

Author:Peter Gutwein

“The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn't cost that much to start a new bitcoin company, it doesn't cost much to start owning bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world.”

World Way Moving Company Cost Around The World Efficient Bitcoin Ecosystems

Author:Timothy C. Draper

“The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.”

Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

“There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down.”

Years Home Today Energy Interest Pay Cutting Wonderful Cost Ten Lows Years Ago Bills Saving Efficient Vehicle Electric Loan Savings Financing Electric Vehicles

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“China is now urging citizens to eat less meat. Factory farming comes with immense costs to a society, and Chinese leaders are starting to recognize its implications for water use, the efficient use of grains and other food resources, and human health concerns.”

Humans Use Water Leader Citizens Cost Resources Concern Starting China Chinese Meat Factories Efficient Grain Immense Farming Implications Factory Farming Human Health

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“Delivery is about being more efficient, it's about numbers, and it's about extracting costs.”

Numbers Cost Efficient Delivery

Author:Ronald M. Shaich

“You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.”

“Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.”

Desire Car Industry Cost Decades Fuel Motivated Efficient Status Quo Korean Sloth Imports Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo Auto Industry Maintaining The Status Quo

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein