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" The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars. "
Robert Zubrin
Space
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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. "
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" The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers. "
Robert Zubrin
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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
" 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. "
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Need
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" 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
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" The 20th century saw three great-power confrontations. Two of them turned into total war. We lucked out on the third. Do we really want to roll those dice again? "
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Three
" 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. "
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" It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection. "
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View
Point Of View
EPA
" No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones. "
Robert Zubrin
Much
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Than
" 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
" The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction. "
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Drive
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" The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released. "
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Absence
Forth
System
" I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.' "
Robert Zubrin
Space
College
Effort
" I run a small company with 18 employees on its payroll. "
Robert Zubrin
Payroll
Run
Small
" 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. "
Robert Zubrin
Exports
Crash
Price
" The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA. "
Robert Zubrin
Government
Because
NASA
" The federal government was created to defend the United States, not to wage war upon it. "
Robert Zubrin
Defend
United States
War
" The United States has the largest and best navy in the world. "
Robert Zubrin
United
Best
Navy
" 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
" 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
" Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes. "
Robert Zubrin
Than
Carbon
More
" 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. "
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Law
Dramatic
United States
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Our European allies need to be able to buy our fuel, or they will fall to enemy domination. "
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Enemy
Allies
Fall
" As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT. "
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Acts
Coming
Existence
" 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. "
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Nation
Energy
Government