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"One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil."
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"Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables."
"We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem."
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"In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways."
"We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world."
"Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies."
"There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better."
"The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars."
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"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so."
"The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power."
"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
"Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem."
"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
"A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time."
"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia."
"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."
"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
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