George W. Bush Quotes

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal.

The United States must face the uncomfortable fact that its goal of “energy independence”--- a phrase that has become a mantra since it was first articulated by Richard Nixon four weeks after the 1973 embargo was put in place--- is increasingly at odds with reality.

The world’s demand for energy will never stop.

The Department of Energy was created for one purpose: To obtain energy independence. Yet where are we?

Historically, countries have made big energy shifts only when confronted with acute fossil-fuel crises: oil embargoes, debilitating pollution, or wars.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.

One of the things that we need to do immediately is try to move our self away from petroleum-based or fuels from carbon-based fueling of this country, and, you know, we started doing that here in Iowa and we've been very successful with developing our alternative energy programs.

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.