We’ve already collected nature quotes—how about some quotes on energy 8

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   ben Posted 10:30 am
   16 Aug 2005

   Here are someHow about: "The suburbs are the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of man kind" - Jim Kunstler from The End of Suburbia
   Also, from the book "Oil Addiction: The World in Peril" by Pierre Chomat, in the book dedications:
   "To the children of Hilla, Mosul, Dawaniya, Baghdad, Tehran, Baku, Groznyy, Lagos .. who face the possibility of paying with their lives to ensure the comfort of the children of the West"
   Those are my favs at least.
   
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   cleantech Posted 11:35 am
   16 Aug 2005

   Current quotesOn greenwashing nuclear:
   
   "Nuclear is safe, reliable and affordable" -- Barnie Beasley, CEO, Southern, in a pro-nuke advertorial in FORTUNE.
   
   
   
   On the grid:
   
   
   
   "Today's grid is mostly composed of traditional technologies. Thomas Edison would recognize most of it." Patrick Mazza, Climate Solutions, in a report calling for grid upgrades.
   
   
   
   On reliability:
   
   
   
   "We will always have blackouts" David Garman, Acting Undersecretary of Energy, in an NPR interview in 2005 about the blackout of 2003.
   
   
   
   On solar power:
   
   
   
   "Our natural bent at Metro would be to take advantage of this form of energy. It's something that we have to do, not only as an organization, but as a society." Dale Cummings, King County Metro Transit in Seattle. Metro bought a fleet of hybrid buses in 2004 and a hundred solar-powered lights for bus shelters in 2005.
   
   
   
   
   
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   Energy Priorities
   
   

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   ben Posted 11:50 am
   16 Aug 2005

   Just thought of another"The solar industry is the poor counsin of the microchip industry" - Sass Peress, CEO ICP Solar, talking about how solar companies get the junk silicon that microchips can't use.
   
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   makower Posted 1:37 pm
   16 Aug 2005

   Too Cheap to MeterI'd have to go with this one:
   "Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter." -- Lewis L. Strauss, speech to the National Association of Science Writers, New York City, September 16th, 1954
    [Source: New York Times, September 17, 1954]

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   Spectrumist Posted 2:13 am
   17 Aug 2005

   Applicable to EnergyI use this one often when discussing energy issues, even if the author did not have energy in mind when he said it:
   "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing... after they have exhausted all other possibilities."  - Sir Winston Churchill

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   gribley Posted 2:50 am
   17 Aug 2005

   Illich on transportation"Participatory democracy demands low-energy technology, and free people must travel the road to productive social relations at the speed of a bicycle."
   "The bicycle lifted man's auto-mobility into a new order, beyond which progress is theoretically not possible."
   ...and many others in the brilliant Energy and Equity.
   
   

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   Garrett Posted 11:46 am
   17 Aug 2005

   Energy QuotesKurt Vonnegut said, in Fates Worse Than Death...
   "What other fates worse than death can I name? Life without petroleum?"

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   planetthoughts Posted 7:13 pm
   10 Nov 2006

   Favorite nature quotesFor pure love of nature:
   "I want to go soon and live away by the pond, where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds."
   - Henry David Thoreau
   And, more "modern" and political:
   "Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
   - William Ruckelshaus
   
   David Alexander
   
   http://www.planetthoughts.org
   
   
   
   Love your Planet.

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