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" 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
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" 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
" 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
" Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur; take your pick. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Think
You
" Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America. "
Robert Zubrin
Freedom
Dollar
America
" The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech. "
Robert Zubrin
Energy
Weather
People
" 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
" 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
" People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done. "
Robert Zubrin
Space
Fate
Exploration
" Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That's what Obamacare means. "
Robert Zubrin
Obamacare
Fewer
Jobs
" The United States has the largest and best navy in the world. "
Robert Zubrin
United
Best
Navy
" 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
" 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
" The key issue is not who is in charge but what. Russia's problem is constitutional. There is no division of powers. The judges, the police, and the legislature all work for the same people, and there is essentially no trial by jury. As a result, anyone can be arrested and accused of anything, and conviction is almost guaranteed. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Result
Problem
" Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false. "
Robert Zubrin
Work
Capitalism
Socialism
" 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
" Ideas have consequences. "
Robert Zubrin
Consequences
Ideas
" As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT. "
Robert Zubrin
Acts
Coming
Existence
" 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
" The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets. "
Robert Zubrin
Well
Possessions
Political
" Without Ukraine, Dugin's fascist Eurasian Union project is impossible, and sooner or later, Russia itself will have to join the West and become free, leaving only a few despised and doomed islands of tyranny around the globe. "
Robert Zubrin
Free
Will
Tyranny
" Putting aside for the moment the question of whether human industrial CO2 emissions are having an effect on climate, it is quite clear that they are raising atmospheric CO2 levels. As a result, they are having a strong and markedly positive effect on plant growth worldwide. There is no doubt about this. "
Robert Zubrin
Moment
Growth
Strong
" 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
" Putin himself made his original fortune in the early 1990s, when he stole the funds that had been entrusted to him to buy food in Europe to relieve the starvation in Leningrad that occurred during the economic collapse following the fall of the Soviet Union. "
Robert Zubrin
Fall
Union
Original
" 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
" The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony. "
Robert Zubrin
Give
United States
United
" There are many elements needed to secure economic growth. Certainly, people must be politically free to innovate, invest, build, and create things, and they must be incentivized to do so by knowing they can keep the rewards for their efforts. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Free
Create
" The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar. "
Robert Zubrin
World
Automobile
Company
" 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
" 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
" The problem with Russia is not that it has laws restricting promotion of the gay lifestyle. The problem with Russia is that it has no laws that effectively constrain the strong or protect the weak. "
Robert Zubrin
Problem
Promotion
Gay