Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively. "
Robert Zubrin
Energy
Literally
Our
Related Quotes:
" When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Problems
Money
" The natural-gas industry is screaming for new markets, and there are only two sectors where these can be found: transportation and power generation. "
Robert Zubrin
Transportation
New
Generation
" I don't think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity... that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers. "
Robert Zubrin
Mission
Humanity
Nation
" In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crime got rich. Then Putin killed even more Russians when he had the FSB explode bombs in apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 to give himself the pretext to seize dictatorial powers. "
Robert Zubrin
Seize
Crime
Rich
" There is nothing 'conservative' at all about Putin's cause. What he is offering is a synthetic ideology called Eurasianism, composed for him by Dugin, as a means of uniting all the anti-Western movements of the world under Kremlin control. "
Robert Zubrin
World
Conservative
Nothing
" Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy. "
Robert Zubrin
Matter
Creation
Wealth
" Government attempts to ban fracking should be aborted. The government should lift the burdensome regulations that have made the construction of nuclear power plants excessively expensive, thereby freeing up even more natural gas for direct use or for methanol manufacture. "
Robert Zubrin
Construction
Power
Plants
" Ideas have consequences. "
Robert Zubrin
Consequences
Ideas
" The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it. "
Robert Zubrin
Trade
Almost
Other
" The EPA must be forbidden to seize or destroy the property of any person until and unless such person has been found guilty of a crime in a court of law. "
Robert Zubrin
Court
Seize
Crime
" Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes. "
Robert Zubrin
Than
Carbon
More
" Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Just
High
" You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Control
Earth
" The EPA could act to open the transportation-fuel market to vigorous competition from natural gas as well as coal, biomass, and trash, by legalizing methanol. This would force oil prices down, expand the economy, and create millions of jobs. "
Robert Zubrin
Oil
Create
Competition
" In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses. "
Robert Zubrin
Need
Facts
Gun
" The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar. "
Robert Zubrin
World
Automobile
Company
" In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears. "
Robert Zubrin
Liberty
Purpose
Sincerity
" If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damaging to their own interests and those of their customers. But they are not, and so they won't. "
Robert Zubrin
Act
Free
Fuel
" I think that when humans get around to exploring and building cities and towns on Mars, it will be viewed as one of the great times of humanity, a time when people set foot on another world and had the freedom to make their own world. "
Robert Zubrin
Great
Time
Think
" Prosperous communities are much better able to survive hurricanes or other natural disasters because they have greater resources, both public and private, to fall back upon. "
Robert Zubrin
Fall
Back
Better
" Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources. "
Robert Zubrin
Agriculture
Resources
Oil
" We have never been in danger of running out of resources, but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained. "
Robert Zubrin
Never
Human
Say
" The federal government should end its policies of economic warfare against the United States and allow our nation to develop all its energy resources to the fullest, both for domestic use and for export. "
Robert Zubrin
Nation
Energy
Government
" Mars is key to humanity's future in space. It is the closest planet that has all the resources needed to support life and technological civilization. Its complexity uniquely demands the skills of human explorers, who will pave the way for human settlers. "
Robert Zubrin
Space
Life
Humanity
" What the world needs most for its stability, and what the U.S. needs for its national security, is economic growth, which is driven first and foremost by expanded carbon use. "
Robert Zubrin
First
Driven
Growth
" From 1859 to 1971, the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously, in the process serving mightily to drive our economy and win our wars. But that growth was stopped dead in 1971 and sent into decline thereafter, as the advent of the EPA and the accompanying National Environmental Policy Act made it increasingly difficult to drill. "
Robert Zubrin
Environmental
Win
Oil
" The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available. "
Robert Zubrin
Limit
Oil
Policy
" Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That's what Obamacare means. "
Robert Zubrin
Obamacare
Fewer
Jobs
" Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee ingenuity will do the rest. "
Robert Zubrin
Rest
Achieve
Economy
" As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing faster. Furthermore, global warming lengthens the growing season and increases net rainfall. "
Robert Zubrin
Result
Growing
Earth