“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
“[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.” UseScienceWaterGenerationsProduceAvailableOilConsiderationEnginesElectricElectricityPredictionsCoalInsignificantFuture GenerationSteamFreezingSteam EnginesWater PowerElectric Power Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists "tomato" as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.” FirstsProducePicksOilStoresListsMeatIngredientsGrainSauceJarsOnionsTomatoesOlivesYour FavoriteVinegarOlive OilPantryFreezer Author:Giada De Laurentiis
“The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.” EndsCountryWould BeDifficultProduceSurpriseOilMessBrokeWinnerCursedLotteryAngola Author:Paul Theroux
“One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.” ThinkingMeanProducePlantOilBelongingIdentical Author:Otto Wallach
“The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil.” NeedsLittlesEconomyEffectsProduceEnvironmentalOilAlternativesRegionsGoodsSustainabilityConsumedExhaustionGreenhouses Book:Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy Source: Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy
“There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have it in two forms. You can have it dissipated in the atmosphere - like carbon dioxide - which then you cannot recover, or you can have the waste concentrated in one small space like nuclear. That is far easier to deal with. The idea that you can be able to create renewable energy at a price anywhere near the current price for oil or gas or coal is a fantasy.” IfsWantNeedsTwoIdeasAbleFormEnergySpaceDealsFantasyEconomyProduceEasierWasteCurrentsOilNuclearAtmosphereGasLunchPollutionCarbonCoalRenewable EnergyCarbon DioxideSmall SpacesFree Lunch Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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
“There's no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per unit of energy produced.” EnergyNaturalProduceOilGasUnitsCarbonCoalNatural Gas Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“I think oil prices are down for two reasons. One is, there is a lot of supply. There is a lot of supply because the U.S. now produces a lot of oil and there is a lot of supply because the Saudis seem to want to produce a lot of oil, maybe to punish the Iranians and the Russians.” ThinkingWantTwoReasonSeemsProduceOilSaudisOil Price Author:David Wessel
“Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas, they don't have a great impetus. But again, the revenue that natural resources produce gives them the capability and so countries like Iran are beginning to develop an industrial component.” GivingCountryNaturalProduceBecomingResourcesOilGasIranCapabilityElsewhereUrbanComponentsRevenueNatural ResourcesImpetusOil And Gas Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that? How can one explain that to a working family, that produces goods and services, those who produce the olive oil that is a a main source of food in any European country? They humbly work the land with great effort and then the little resources they had saved in banks have now become dust simply because they did not have the means to withstand inflation produced by the adjustment policies.” PeopleMeanLittlesCountryJobsYoungEffortHalfImagineLandPolicyProduceSourceResourcesUnionsOilSavedDustGoodsInflationAdjustmentEuropean UnionOlivesEuropean CountriesGoods And ServicesGreat EffortOlive Oil Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.” YearsWellsEndsEnergyAnimalSunProduceOilBillionsBurningSubstanceAtmosphereHeatExtrasGasFarmsCowsPigsCarbonCoalCarbon DioxideMethane Author:Bill Nye