Quotes by Jeff Goodell

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Jeff Goodell is an American author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. Goodell's writings are known for a focus on energy and environmental issues.
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The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians' minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.

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Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

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Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, in...

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In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine tax...

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One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

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The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

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Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

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When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

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Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

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Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

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Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

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In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

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The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the pa...

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Author Bio

  • NameJeff Goodell
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • ProfessionJournalist