Quotes About Energy

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

We get more oil from Canada than any country.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

There is no free market for oil.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

We need to move away from oil, period.

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.

I don't give a darn about coal or about oil. I do give a darn about oil jobs. I do give a darn about the jobs that coal can bring... I am against the Obama administration demonizing certain forms of energy and glorying others. I say, bring it all in.

If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, 'Oh, we're energy poor; we don't have enough oil; we don't have enough natural gas.'

Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

Canadians need to start thinking of themselves as a petrostate, and they need to start thinking of the kinds of controls needed to protect the country from the excesses of oil.

Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.

Pipelines are the safest way to move oil.

We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.

Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

The best thing about running is that you can eat a lot and still feel OK.