Portal talk:Energy/Quotes

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Note: Before June 2007 quotations were changed manually on an ad-hoc basis.

Note: From June 2007 quotations are changed randomly from a pool of quotations, rather than being manually updated. The current pool of quotations used can be found here.
There is a need to expand the number of quotations in the pool, so please note any ideas below, together with a hyperlink link to the quotation if possible.

• We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

John D. Rockefeller

1885

http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=1571

Parked here pending 2 or 3 other quotes, ideally on a similar theme. Gralo 12:39, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Albert Bartlett

1978

http://www.intuser.net/ufes23.php

Gralo 02:29, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Climate change, and how we address it, will define us, our era and ultimately the global legacy we leave for future generations.

Ban Ki-moon

2007

http://www.un.org/climatechange/background/sginitiatives.shtml

Gralo 23:28, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

These quotes are misleading. Predictions are being made which doesn't necessarily have to become true. There is no quote which provide any scepsis. History could learn us that things could go wrong and doesn't necessarily always have to go right. We are not living in a Hollywood film, but in reality.Daanschr 11:37, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- Look at the archives, there are quotes from President Bush, both sides are presented, so there really isn't a problem with the quotes.--dotDarkCloud (talk) 16:00, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. We recognize our responsibility and will meet it - at home, in our hemisphere, and in the world." – George W. Bush, 2001

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, so here's mine: being well-known how President Bush has opposed several measures imposing limits on CO2 emissions in behalf of the economy, even when US states wanted to implement such measures, I think this quotation is everything but 'truthful' in a practical sense.

Sarai 85.242.229.224 (talk) 20:14, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]