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- Nov 07, 2020
Fossil Quotes
From ancient bones to the fuels that power today.
This page bridges two meanings of fossil: the deep-time record that traces every living thing back through history, and the modern fuels shaping conversations about energy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have discovered that if you take all the places of Greek myths, those specific locales turn out to be abundant fossil sites, but there is also a lot of natural knowledge embedded in those myths, showing that Greek perceptions about fossils were pretty amazing for prescientific people.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.
- Fossils
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes the economic picture for fossil technologies and for the renewable technologies. It makes the renewable technologies more attractive and the fossils less attractive.
- Energy Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions, the dependence on fossil fuels, and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem, with the government able to step in as the solution.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is Mr. Trump could simply sit in the Oval Office for four years like a potted plant, and that would be a vast improvement over the Obama agenda, which was almost in every case - from tax increases to spending stimulus bills to Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, the war on fossil fuels, and so on - bad for growth.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.
- Depend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.
- Nov 07, 2020
You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
- Electricity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.
- Global Warming
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- Nov 07, 2020