I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

- Chris Paine

Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

- Chris Paine

There are not a ton of people buying cars - cars are expensive. So people usually go for the cheapest car they can get. And if the price of gasoline …

- Chris Paine

Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservi…

- Chris Paine

In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing…

- Chris Paine

I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, y…

- Chris Paine

Obviously the horse can still do things that the gas car can never do, and the gas car will always be able to do things the electric car can't do. Bu…

- Chris Paine

I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.

- Chris Paine

Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fuku…

- Chris Paine