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" Through our CO2 emissions, we are making the earth a more fertile world. "
Robert Zubrin
Through
World
Earth
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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. "
Robert Zubrin
People
College
Science
" Nothing could do more harm to America's national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible. "
Robert Zubrin
Nothing
Security
Impossible
" 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
" 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 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 NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak. "
Robert Zubrin
NASA
Steak
Program
" 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
More
Service
Law
" Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery. "
Robert Zubrin
Discovery
Science
Process
" 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
" Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That's what Obamacare means. "
Robert Zubrin
Obamacare
Fewer
Jobs
" Every dollar added to the price of oil weakens America and strengthens her enemies. "
Robert Zubrin
Every
Dollar
Price
" Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as 'Eurasianism.' "
Robert Zubrin
Ideology
Gang
Today
" The blockade against American natural-gas exports needs to be lifted, and the war on coal needs to be ended, so that, instead of being wasted to replace perfectly good coal-generated electricity, our natural-gas exports can be expanded even further. "
Robert Zubrin
Good
Wasted
American
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply. "
Robert Zubrin
World
War
Victory
" Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures. "
Robert Zubrin
People
Just
High
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense. "
Robert Zubrin
Purpose
Government
Defense
" 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
" I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government. "
Robert Zubrin
Government
Business
Company