Quotes about Coal

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Votes: 4

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. Votes: 4

Coal is a portable climate. Votes: 3

Coal is My Worst Nightmare. Votes: 3

My father and brothers were coal miners. Votes: 3

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block. Votes: 3

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. Votes: 3

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious. Votes: 3

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. Votes: 3

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness. Votes: 3

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. Votes: 3

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. Votes: 3

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday). Votes: 3

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. Votes: 3

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. Votes: 3

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death." Votes: 3

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death. Votes: 3

Coal is an essential part of America's energy future, not to mention an important part of Pennsylvania's economy. Votes: 3

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out. Votes: 3

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world. Votes: 3

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China. Votes: 3

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit. Votes: 3

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work. Votes: 3

Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions. Votes: 3

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America. Votes: 3

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently. Votes: 3

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port Votes: 3

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi. Votes: 3

Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it. Votes: 3

Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world. Votes: 3

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. Votes: 3

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity. Votes: 3

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. Votes: 3

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations. Votes: 3

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals. Votes: 3

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. Votes: 3

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man. Votes: 3

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. Votes: 3

I'm wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it's masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music's great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves. Votes: 3

Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil. Votes: 3

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office. Votes: 3

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid. Votes: 3

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood? Votes: 3

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood. Votes: 3

Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using. Votes: 3

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Votes: 3

Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig. Votes: 3

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. Votes: 3

If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice. Votes: 3

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. Votes: 3

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements. Votes: 3

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. Votes: 3

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death. Votes: 3

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath. Votes: 3

There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative." Votes: 3

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic. Votes: 3

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed. Votes: 3

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied. Votes: 3

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. Votes: 1

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil. Votes: 1

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. Votes: 1

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal. Votes: 1

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. Votes: 1

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. Votes: 1

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. Votes: 1

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral. Votes: 1

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Votes: 1

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought. Votes: 1

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources. Votes: 1

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. Votes: 1

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. Votes: 1

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous. Votes: 1

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz. Votes: 1

Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat. Votes: 1

Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before. Votes: 1

There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot. Votes: 1

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high. Votes: 1

When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination. Votes: 1

The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill fish. No other park in the country has more ozone or sulfates than Shenandoah National Park. Votes: 1

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption. Votes: 1

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. Votes: 1

Even coal shimmers in the light Votes: 0

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold. Votes: 0

You can't mine coal without machine guns. Votes: 0

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. Votes: 0

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal. Votes: 0

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine. Votes: 0

I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas. Votes: 0

More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy. Votes: 0

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school. Votes: 0

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal! Votes: 0

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine. Votes: 0

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. Votes: 0

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Votes: 0

I'd noticed that his eyes were black "“ coal black. Votes: 0

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine Votes: 0

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. Votes: 0

We need to invest in all energy sources, including coal and shale. Votes: 0

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out. Votes: 0

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets Votes: 0

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin. Votes: 0

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole Votes: 0

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job Votes: 0

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine. Votes: 0

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure. Votes: 0

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job. Votes: 0

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room. Votes: 0

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me. Votes: 0

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels Votes: 0

The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be. Votes: 0

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars." Votes: 0

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. Votes: 0

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. Votes: 0

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants,' Votes: 0

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. Votes: 0

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead. Votes: 0

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal. Votes: 0

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner. Votes: 0

Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire. Votes: 0

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. Votes: 0

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. Votes: 0

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined. Votes: 0

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. Votes: 0

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge. Votes: 0

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. Votes: 0

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? Votes: 0

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell. Votes: 0

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. Votes: 0

The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector. Votes: 0

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse. Votes: 0

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond. Votes: 0

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years. Votes: 0

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist. Votes: 0

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. Votes: 0

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire. Votes: 0

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity. Votes: 0

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond. Votes: 0

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16. Votes: 0

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. Votes: 0

The issues of going back to coal in Ontario? I don't think we're going to win that one. Votes: 0

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal. Votes: 0

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. Votes: 0

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers. Votes: 0

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food. Votes: 0

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. Votes: 0

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. Votes: 0

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways. Votes: 0

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. Votes: 0

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital. Votes: 0

It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good. Votes: 0

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. Votes: 0

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making. Votes: 0

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12. Votes: 0

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years. Votes: 0

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. Votes: 0

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. Votes: 0

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other. Votes: 0

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire. Votes: 0

One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy. Votes: 0

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out. Votes: 0

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. Votes: 0

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth. Votes: 0

In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. Votes: 0

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... Votes: 0

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. Votes: 0

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions. Votes: 0

Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. Votes: 0

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. Votes: 0

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. Votes: 0

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal. Votes: 0

Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be. Votes: 0

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal. Votes: 0

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. Votes: 0

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop. Votes: 0

The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth. Votes: 0

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal. Votes: 0

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond. Votes: 0

If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking. Votes: 0

Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell. Votes: 0

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter. Votes: 0

Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned. Votes: 0

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments. Votes: 0

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children. Votes: 0

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs. Votes: 0

Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down. Votes: 0

Goals and caps on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air. Votes: 0

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color? Votes: 0

Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them! Votes: 0

The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned. Votes: 0

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear. Votes: 0

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds. Votes: 0

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. Votes: 0

I was recruited to sort of be the doc to advocate for communities that were struggling with polluting incinerators, polluting coal plants, toxic waste sites, etc. Votes: 0

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. Votes: 0

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal. Votes: 0

India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports. Votes: 0

When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority. Votes: 0

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. Votes: 0

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. Votes: 0

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal Votes: 0

The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050. Votes: 0

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal. Votes: 0

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future. Votes: 0

Not only will the development of coal-to-liquid and environmentally friendly sequestration technologies increase our energy security, but these advancements will also help create better, higher-paying American jobs. Votes: 0

There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about. Votes: 0

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power. Votes: 0

When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress. Votes: 0

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels. Votes: 0

The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today. Votes: 0

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs. Votes: 0

There's no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per unit of energy produced. Votes: 0

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world. Votes: 0

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric. Votes: 0

There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of 1970, that you will reopen coal mines. Votes: 0

Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves. Votes: 0

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. Votes: 0

In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets. Votes: 0

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town. Votes: 0

If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics, I'm not making any allegations on anyone. Votes: 0

Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to continue to seek out new energy sources. Votes: 0

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. Votes: 0

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school. Votes: 0

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school. Votes: 0

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal. Votes: 0

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea. Votes: 0

If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal. Votes: 0

The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago. Votes: 0

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal. Votes: 0

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. Votes: 0

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile. Votes: 0

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be. Votes: 0

When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can. Votes: 0

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population. Votes: 0

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia. Votes: 0

the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment. Votes: 0

The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later. Votes: 0

Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men. Votes: 0

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power. Votes: 0

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right. Votes: 0

We believe widespread adoption of home solar will significantly improve life in cities by phasing out polluting coal plants, eliminating miles of ugly new transmission lines, and ensuring cleaner, healthier lives. Votes: 0

those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from God's altar - a star cupped in my hands Votes: 0

When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you? Votes: 0

And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings ... even the birds stop to listen. Votes: 0

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid. Votes: 0

But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls! Votes: 0

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. Votes: 0

Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture. Votes: 0

In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that's incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That's the down side. Votes: 0

Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well? Votes: 0

Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were not only intrusive, they were also grossly inefficient. Votes: 0

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. Votes: 0

Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split. Votes: 0

The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear. Votes: 0

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed? Votes: 0

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization. Votes: 0

The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear." Votes: 0

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory. Votes: 0

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue. Votes: 0

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black. Votes: 0

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent. Votes: 0

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em. Votes: 0

From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again. Votes: 0

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing. Votes: 0

The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year. Votes: 0

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos. Votes: 0

While she [Hillary Clinton] promotes fracking and established an office as secretary of State to promote fracking around the world. The cutting edge science now suggests fracking is every bit as bad as coal. Votes: 0

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos Votes: 0

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Votes: 0

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education. Votes: 0

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askingMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. Votes: 0

Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel. Votes: 0

The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain. The question is only whether it takes 30 years or 70 years. Votes: 0

I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil. Votes: 0

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted. Votes: 0

Oddly enough, my mother was born in Southampton. I have roots in Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor. My grandfather, her father, Stefano Rullo, when he came from Naples, he went to Pennsylvania and worked coal mines. Votes: 0

We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables. Votes: 0

Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage. Votes: 0

Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray--where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption. Votes: 0

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today. Votes: 0