“We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and around the profligate wastefulness of the wars and campaigns required to defend such consumption. In recent years we have defined our national interest largely in terms of the oil fields and pipelines we need to procure fuel.” WorldNeedsYearsWarNationsTermInterestEconomyFieldsProduceOilCampaignsDefinedFuelConsumptionConsumerismOrganizeConsumingOverconsumptionPipelineNational InterestsWastefulnessOil Field Book:Small Wonder Source: Small Wonder
“This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.” SometimesHomeEnvironmentGenerationsAirProduceMaterialsRiversIncreasePlantClimate ChangeHeavyBreatheScalesBurningAtmosphereFuelEach DaySteadyFactoriesVehicleCompositionCarbonFossilsMotorCropsAutomobileAlteredFossil FuelDumpPoisonousThis GenerationCarbon DioxideHeatingSulfurMotor Vehicles Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.” WorldEnergyNaturalGrowingProducePopulationOilBillionsBurningFuelGasCoalFossilsFossil FuelNatural GasBurning Fossil FuelsBurning Coal Author:John Olver
“The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.” EnergyProduceResearchScientistClimateBurningAtmosphereFuelConcentrationFossilsFossil FuelCo2IndustrializationBurning Fossil Fuels Author:John Olver
“We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.” PeopleNeedsTryingAbleTechnologyProduceAmountFuelCracked Author:Richard Branson
“We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.” IfsAmericaBitsMillionsProduceWastePlantAlcoholFuelGallonsSewage Author:Josh Tickell