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" 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. "

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" 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

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" 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. "

" In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be. "

Robert Zubrin

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" The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes. "

Robert Zubrin

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" The natural-gas industry is screaming for new markets, and there are only two sectors where these can be found: transportation and power generation. "

" Through our CO2 emissions, we are making the earth a more fertile world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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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. "

" 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. "

" The federal government was created to defend the United States, not to wage war upon it. "

" Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit. "

" The use of hunger as a weapon of political control is a crime against humanity. "

" The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable. "

" Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate. "

" Our European allies need to be able to buy our fuel, or they will fall to enemy domination. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Robert Zubrin

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