"Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables."

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Source : "Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target'" by Duncan Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

Fatih Birol

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“For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.”
“It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.”
“Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your not being around to notice how bad it is.”

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“My website bulletin board is the place I interact with my readers.”
“Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.”

Source : "Oscar Isaac Talks INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, Preparing for the Role, Working with the Coen Brothers and T-Bone Burnett, and Balancing Acting and Music". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2013.
“The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.”
“No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano.”
“Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in the vanguard of political action, Jewish feminist and gays find ourselves fighting for the rights of others without the secure knowledge that others will fight for us.”

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