#transportation

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#arises #crisis #die #energy #environmental

After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District. ↗

— Bob Ney

#after #bill #congress #congressional #congressional district

It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#build #class #company #computer #demanding

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#public-transit #transportation #travel #traveling-alone #urban

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#cars #consumed #daily #light #oil

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#area #being #bring #committee #create

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact. ↗

— Larry Page

#clean #clean energy #energy #generating #groups

In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #enabled #exchanges #factory #industrial

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#i love #love #mass #subway #take