Consumption Quotes

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.