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" The Earth is not endangered by humanity. But humanity is being seriously threatened by those who follow the guides of the WWF. "
Robert Zubrin
Seriously
Who
Humanity
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" The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental. "
Robert Zubrin
Carbon
Human
Well-Being
" We need to improve our horrible position within the petroleum game by eliminating the EPA and other crippling bureaucracies that have turned the U.S. from the game's biggest winners into its worst losers. "
Robert Zubrin
Winners
Need
Improve
" The problem is that the automobile companies are not independent entities capable of pursuing their own interests. Rather, they are owned and controlled by organizations that are much more heavily invested in oil. "
Robert Zubrin
Own
Problem
Independent
" 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
" Like the producers of crops, airplanes, and books, producers of natural gas provide goods to meet the size of their available market. The larger the market, the more they can produce, and the more revenue they can obtain to cover their fixed costs and invest in future development. "
Robert Zubrin
Meet
Natural
Future
" I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government. "
Robert Zubrin
Government
Business
Company
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Zubrin
Used
Capitalism
Slave
" The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense. "
Robert Zubrin
Purpose
Government
Defense
" The issue comes down to this: The NSA metadata-collection program costs lots of money, and had funds not been expended on it, they could have been used to support other programs that might have been far more effective in saving American lives. "
Robert Zubrin
American
Money
More
" The United States has the largest and best navy in the world. "
Robert Zubrin
United
Best
Navy
" 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
" In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil. "
Robert Zubrin
American
World
Oil
" 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
" 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
Through
Small
Performance
" The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony. "
Robert Zubrin
Give
United States
United
" Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit. "
Robert Zubrin
Some
Purse
Public
" The goods of the world market are available for Cuba to purchase, but all the foreign exchange is monopolized by the regime, which uses it for its own power and pleasure. "
Robert Zubrin
World
Power
Pleasure
" 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. "
Robert Zubrin
Way
Possible
World
" It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection. "
Robert Zubrin
View
Point Of View
EPA
" 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
" If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans through massive domestic surveillance, we need to compare this program to others aimed at saving American lives. "
Robert Zubrin
Others
American
Need
" 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
" 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
" 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
" In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.' "
Robert Zubrin
Plan
New
Time
" The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak. "
Robert Zubrin
NASA
Steak
Program
" 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. "
Robert Zubrin
Will
Open
Need
" Were the United States to pass a law requiring all cars to be methanol-capable flex-fuel vehicles, or simply repeal EPA regulations that prevent such conversions from being carried out privately, our immense natural-gas capacity could make a dramatic entrance into the liquid-fuel market. "
Robert Zubrin
Law
Dramatic
United States
" 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