It is very commonly urged, that the failing supply of coal … - William Stanley Jevons

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It is very commonly urged, that the failing supply of coal will be met by new modes of using it efficiently and economically. ...It is wholly a confusion of ideas to suppose that the economical use of fuel is equivalent to a diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth.

William Stanley Jevons

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William Stanley Jevons (1 September 1835 – 13 August 1882) was an English economist and logician.

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