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We think there's a tectonic shift coming. With a finite supply of fossil fuels, over time the price of conventional energy will increase, allowing some of these alternatives to come in.

The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the ''American Way of Life'' is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

This exciting fossil is a further jigsaw puzzle piece in a series of recent discoveries.

You must remember to compare benefits versus costs. For the foreseeable future, the only affordable alternatives are coal, natural gas, oil or nuclear. Renewable sources - solar, wind, etc. - so favored by the left remain prohibitively expensive. A nation becomes weaker, not stronger, by artificially overspending on costly, inefficient alternatives to fossil fuels.

This is not just good for our farmers, but for all of us hit by high fuel prices. Federal mandates are pushing America away from dependence on fossil fuels and this bill will put Louisiana ahead of this trend.

Ingenuity will enable us to solve pollution problems, promote economic growth and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

If we burn all the fossil fuels there are, the Greenland ice sheet will melt, raising sea levels 23 feet or so around the world.

If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.

Taking into consideration the progress that has been made by the NRC in streamlining the licensing process, the significant increases we have seen in the price of fossil fuels, current and pending clean air regulations and the potential for financial and other incentives for nuclear generation that are provided in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, we believe the nuclear option is extremely competitive with other sources of generation.

The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate.

Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.

In 230 million years, a short detour to Australia and back is a mere blip in history, ... All in all, it is a massive collection. It is one of the biggest fossil hauls in world history, and certainly the biggest in Chinese and Australian history.

Climbing oil prices and the problems with climate change make it ill-advised to sink more money into fossil fuels.

In my work on Fossil Bones, I set myself the task of identifying the animals whose fossilized remains fill the surface strata of the earth.

Because the bill strengthens the state's energy efficiency programs, it will help protect consumers against rising utility prices due to increases in fossil fuel prices.

By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on the climate. So, like it or not, we're already messing with a system we don't understand.

Because of a lack of fossil fuel resources within its borders, Israel has been forced to innovate to maintain a sustainable energy policy.

I didn't start this company to use fossil fuels.

In every study we've done, fuel cells surface as the most promising long-term pathway for the industry -- even if you use fossil fuels, like natural gas, as the source of hydrogen.

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

The combustion of fossil fuels is essential to our energy policy and must continue to be a part of a balanced energy plan for this country.

The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards.

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

The high prices are also positive in that theyll force less consumption, which means less fossil fuels being used and less pollution, ... Most people dont like being in a lot of traffic. If they have to pay a lot of money to do something they dont like, then they might find another way to go live closer to work or demand more mass transit.

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.

The Europeans had a head start in establishing pilot schemes but they remain academically focused and have been slow to commercialize a resource that can economically compete with fossil fuels as a means of electricity generation.

The main thing that's changed since the 19th Century and the beginning of modern observation has been the widespread increase in fossil fuel use and more greenhouse gases.

You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.

The House energy bill is a blueprint for more nuclear waste, higher gas prices and a continued dependence on fossil fuels.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

It's the first time we've been inside the earthquake machine. We've looked at the fossil earthquakes, we've made computer models, and we've made laboratory earthquakes. We've studied them from afar, but we've never been inside the machine where the action is.

It's likely that we will find over 100 individual skeletons. No fossil site in the world has ever been like that.

There ought to be a complete skeleton of T. rex in New Mexico, we just haven't found one. T. rex as a fossil is very rare.

It's a renewable, valuable resource that we should be using, ... It saves on fossil fuel, we're not burning anything so we're not affecting the air quality.

It's especially clear that regions in Asia and South America are headed for a water supply crisis because once that fossil water (glacier) is gone, it's gone.

It's a bizarre position to say the least. He seems to want to put oil wells off of every beach town in America, but is fighting tooth and nail to block wind energy technologies that use no fossil fuels at all.

This light is just invaluable. It's really the only fossil we have from that time.

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

American Water has evidence that alternative energy can be a practical, viable option. Committing to alternative energy sources benefits everyone. It reduces the impact on the environment, as well as America's dependence on fossil fuels. It also reduces our energy costs; those reductions are then passed onto our customers.

Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways.

We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources.