#reliance

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change. ↗

— Peter Welch

#buildings #change #climate #climate change #contribution

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#barrel #conservation #dangerous #decreases #each

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#inverse #relationship #reliance #self-reliance #state

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#give #jobs #people #self-reliance #sense

Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#causing #come #continue #economic #end

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#being #business #buy #colleagues #friends

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#coach #greatest #greatest asset #him #his

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#fastest #government #growing #know #reliance

Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society. ↗

— Cody Lundin

#preparedness #self-reliance #self-sufficiency #survival #freedom

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. ↗

— Louis Simpson

#capitalism #freedom #frontier #individualism #liberalism