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• What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It’s equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.

  James Hansen

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• If coal is going to be used, the only response – because it is the dirtiest of all fuels – is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

  Nicholas Stern

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  Tags in Carbon, Coal

• Well, I’ll tell you, one of things I’m proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn’t grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.

  Hilda Solis

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• I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

  Peter Edward Cook

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• You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody’s going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

  Scott Grimes

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• To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

  Roald Dahl

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• Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

  Tim Cahill

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  Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

  Zane Grey

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  Tags in Sweat, Blood, Coal

• For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

  Nick Clooney

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• Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

  Virgil Goode

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• Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

  Philip James Bailey

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• Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

  Ellsworth Huntington

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• Sending charcoal in the snow is better than adding flowers to a brocade.

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