Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.
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.
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.
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
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.
Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him and cried for light. If there be any art in the weathers of this earth. Or char these bones to coal. If you can, if you can. A blackened rag in the rain.
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.
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.
I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.
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.
The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less than it is, and the value of coal was considerably less than it is, there would be much less debate about this.
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.
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.
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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.
Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world. . . but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.
You move on. It's work. Yeah, I'm privileged and paid handsomely and it's not exactly being in a coal mine, but you still work your ass off and you work as hard as you possibly can and you hope that people connect to it and enjoy it.
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.
The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U. S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.