Energy Freedom Quotes

Energy Independence

Energy independence is very important to me.

I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil.

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

We will energize America by achieving energy independence

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

Folks should be able to harvest, store, use, or sell their own energy as they see fit. This is not a Democratic nor Republican issue, and if anyone tries to convince you it is, they are being purposely misleading.

Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

All of us have got to pay into a certain system, and what we're saying is it's 100% American that every American should be able to create, store and sell their own energy as they see fit. Let's decentralize energy. Let's democratize energy.

By leading on a strong emissions reduction target, the U.K. is persuading others on the need for member states to have the freedom and flexibility to develop their own energy mix to achieve these ambitious reductions.

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

Before solar, before Sunrun, if consumers wanted electricity, there was a monopoly of someone who told you how much it costs.

We need to improve our horrible position within the petroleum game by eliminating the EPA and other crippling bureaucracies that have turned the U.S. from the game's biggest winners into its worst losers.

By 2020, we'll be able to live without oil.

If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.

Bill Ford, Jr., is somebody who wants to move this industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.