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Notable quotable Save us, Al!	Kate Sheppard	06 May 2008	Gristmill
'Perhaps the only guy that can end this is Al Gore.' -- David Gergen, political consultant and former presidential adviser, commenting on the never-ending Democratic primary during CNN's live coverage Tuesday night
Topics: Al Gore, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable On God and gas	David Roberts	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'God is the only one we can turn to at this point. Our leaders don't seem to be able to do anything about it.' -- Rocky Twyman, who is organizing 'pray-ins' at San Francisco gas stations, asking God to lower gas prices (via Streetsblog)
Topics: green living, oil, quotables, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Shorter 'stache	Adam Browning	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Shorter Tom Friedman: 'Tax the things we don't want, don't tax the things we do want, and don't be so freakin' stupid.' Amen to that, though his fantasy solution of George Bush being the one to 'get all the adults together in a room and work out a compromise' is a bit odd. Those waiting for that to happen might find this illuminating. I suggest that Tom atone by joining this very excellent organization.
Topics: George Bush, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'So I hope that this film will help others to connect the dots the way it helped Tipper and me to connect the dots on the relationship between mountaintop removal -- which is a crime and ought to be treated as a crime -- and the results of burning it without regard to the future, which also ought to be treated as just an unacceptable practice.' -- Al Gore, presenting the 'Reel Current Award' to director Michael O' Connell for his latest film, Mountain Top Removal
Topics: Al Gore, energy, mining, movies, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable(s) Food vs. fuel edition	Tom Philpott	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'To say that biofuels are the culprit [for food-price hikes] clearly underestimates the demand [for food] and really shows a gross misunderstanding of the world food situation.' -- Bill Doyle, CEO Potash Corp, the world's largest fertilizer company, which has seen its share price rise 600 percent in the past two years, quoted April 24 'While global [grain] output in 2007/08 would be the highest ever, mainly because of a record U.S. maize (corn) crop, this would no ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, food, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'I don't intend to be a part of any administration. I've been Vice President, I ran for President twice, so I don't have any interest in being a cabinet member. I think my best use is in building grassroots support. I will, of course, give advice to whoever asks me for advice on this and will work to help, but not in a formal way.' -- Al Gore
Topics: grassroots activism, Al Gore, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'I think some people have overlooked the major news that the President made yesterday, which was committing a national economy-wide goal to halt carbon emissions.' -- White House spokesflack Tony Fratto, confusing a policy that would allow unrestrained growth of carbon emissions for the next 17 years for one that would 'halt' carbon emissions
Topics: climate, funnies, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, insanity, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	JMG	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'It's a crime against humanity that food should be diverted to biofuels.' -- Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's finance minister (via)
Topics: biofuels, energy, food, India, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'Emissions are growing much faster than we'd thought, the absorptive capacity of the planet is less than we'd thought, the risks of greenhouse gases are potentially bigger than more cautious estimates, and the speed of climate change seems to be faster.' -- Nicholas Stern, author of the seminal Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, on why he thinks his report underestimated the danger of global warming
Topics: climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'So what can one conclude from environmentalists' insistence that coal be removed from the country's energy portfolio? That their focus has moved from reducing pollution to abolishing human development and prosperity.' -- the Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board, exposing the conspiracy once and for all
Topics: coal, dumbassery, energy, environmental movement, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'I wouldn't want anyone taking those medicines and having to make decisions in a safety-sensitive position.' -- Dr. Robert Bourgeois on the pills, 'including lorazepam, an antianxiety medicine; Imitrex for migraines; Provigil to increase wakefulness; and Darvon Compound-65 for pain' being taken by Capt. John Cota, pilot of the container ship that plowed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge last fall, for his illnesses, 'including glaucoma, depression, kidney st ...
Topics: air travel, health, insanity, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.' -- CNN founder Ted Turner, on what will happen if global warming is not quickly addressed (video under the fold)
Topics: agriculture, climate, extinction, quotables, severe weather (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a lull in new [coal] plant development.' -- Dynegy Chief Executive Officer and #5 Fossil Fool Bruce Williamson, commenting on the fact that 'environmental opposition is making it more time-consuming to build coal-fueled plants.
Topics: coal, energy, environmental movement, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	29 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'I'll retract the rape complaint from the wombat, because he's pulled out. Apart from speaking Australian now, I'm pretty all right you know. I didn't hurt my bum at all.' -- New Zealander Arthur Cradock, who was subsequently charged with 'using a phone for a fictitious purpose
Topics: health, jackassery, New Zealand, quotables, sex (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'I think it's a mistake to think that emission trading alone will be helpful in reducing greenhouse emissions to any serious extent. I think it's a mistake to extrapolate from the tremendous success of SO2 and NOx to greenhouse gases. And I think the policy debate inside the Beltway is based on a superficial understanding of the similarities between greenhouse gases and Clean Air Act pollutants.' -- UC-Berkley professor Michael Hanemann ($ub. req'd), who just publishe ...
Topics: California, carbon trading, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, quotables, state politics (all these topics)

Mood in the hood	Sir Oolius	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil Company, was on Charlie Rose Tuesday night. About 22 minutes into the segment, he says the following [my own transcription]: If we don't drill more in this country, I am quite concerned about civil disturbances in our urban areas because of the price of fuel. ... I was meeting in Los Angeles with mayor Villaraigosa and I asked him a specific question because I lived there during the Rodney King civil disturbances. [I] said, ' ...
Topics: quotables, Big Oil, oil, business, energy (all these topics)

Notable quotable(s)	David Roberts	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'I am convinced that if we work at it, we will be able to convince India and China that it is in their interest to be part of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.' -- John McCain, March 2008 'One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, 'Stop the bullshit.'' -- John McCain, May 2006
Topics: international politics, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'We need to create new jobs in this country -- green collar jobs that can help our economy and our environment. And I'd like to point out that that's my term -- 'green collar' jobs. See, I can come up with exciting phrases.' -- Hillary Clinton ... at least according to The Onion.
Topics: quotables, funnies, Hillary Clinton, green jobs (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	18 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'A major component of Global Warming is to reduce population because people are seen as part of the problem. And, of course, population control includes abortion. It also includes same-sex relations because they do not cause offspring.' -- Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council
Topics: quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	09 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'I learned that God reveals himself through Scripture and in general through his creation, and when we destroy God's creation, it's similar to ripping pages from the Bible.' -- Rev. James Merritt Jonathan Merritt, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention spokesman for the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative and signatory to the just-released Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change
Topics: green living, quotables, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'Is it all right to hurt humans in order to protect whales? I think whales are cute and important creatures, but even so, hurting humans is unforgivable.' -- Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, criticizing anti-whaling activists
Topics: animal welfare, fishing, Japan, oceans, quotables, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'Oh, yeah? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.' -- President George W. Bush, upon hearing that numerous analysts are predicting $4/gallon gasoline
Topics: quotables, energy, oil, George Bush (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'So when it came time to vote on Dick Cheney's energy bill, I voted no, and Senator Obama voted yes.' -- Hillary Clinton, Ohio Democratic presidential primary debate
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, legislation, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
"I helped to pass legislation to begin a training program for green collar jobs. I want to see people throughout Ohio being trained to do the work that will put solar panels on roofs, install wind turbines, do geothermal, take advantage of biofuels, and I know that if we had put $5 billion into the stimulus package to really invest in the training and the tax incentives that would have created those jobs as the Democrats w ...
Topics: elections, green jobs, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
"We're going to have to invest in infrastructure to make sure that we're competitive. And I've got a plan to do that. We're going to have to invest in science and technology. We've got to vastly improve our education system. We have to look at energy and the potential for creating green jobs that can not just save on our energy costs but, more importantly, can create jobs in building windmills that will produce manufacturing jobs here in Ohio, can put rural commun ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, green jobs, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

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