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" Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy. "
Robert Zubrin
Matter
Creation
Wealth
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" Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful. "
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" In addition to virtually banning methanol outright, the EPA has created regulations to prevent cars from being modified by small businesses to optimize their performance, including through the use of methanol. "
Robert Zubrin
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" 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
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" We need to drastically reduce the importance of the petroleum game itself by enacting flex-fuel-vehicle legislation that will open the transportation market to fuels derived from non-petroleum sources. "
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" The Putin regime's income comes from oil and gas exports. If we could crash the price of these commodities, we could bankrupt the regime. "
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" In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other things being equal, it thus follows that the most attractive acquisition a society can have is a young adult, whose childhood and education has already been paid for, but whose entire working life still lies ahead. "
Robert Zubrin
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Life
" Federal lawmakers need to change the rules so that vehicles converted to use new fuels can be put on the road; the only restriction should be that they pass the same standard state tests that all other cars do. "
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" In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level - high school, college, Ph.D. "
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People
College
Science
" 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. "
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" Carbon is the stuff of life, and it's the stuff of everything used by human society. All of our materials are made of carbon or of substances, such as steel or glass, which are produced through the utilization of carbon. "
Robert Zubrin
Glass
Human
Steel
" The Earth is not endangered by humanity. But humanity is being seriously threatened by those who follow the guides of the WWF. "
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Who
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" America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they should be able to become Americans, as fully so as any - and perhaps more so than most - regardless of how recently they or their ancestors arrived upon our shores. This is the true American tradition, which as conservatives we must defend. "
Robert Zubrin
American
True
People
" Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate. "
Robert Zubrin
He
Independence
Wanted
" The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all. "
Robert Zubrin
Embrace
Run
People
" Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world. "
Robert Zubrin
World
Growth
American
" The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak. "
Robert Zubrin
NASA
Steak
Program
" When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit. "
Robert Zubrin
Limit
Product
Price
" Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America. "
Robert Zubrin
Freedom
Dollar
America
" I run a small company with 18 employees on its payroll. "
Robert Zubrin
Payroll
Run
Small
" 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
" By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected. "
Robert Zubrin
Content
Living
Improvement
" 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 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
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New
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" Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That's what Obamacare means. "
Robert Zubrin
Obamacare
Fewer
Jobs
" 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
" Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service. "
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More
Service
Law
" Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively. "
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Energy
Literally
Our
" The pro-American policy is the one that forces oil prices down. The way to do this is to flood the world market with liquid fuel from every source possible. "
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Way
Possible
World
" 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. "
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" The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home. "
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Used
Capitalism
Slave