Energy Policy Quotes

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

Energy Independence

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction.

Destroying an entire energy industry, that hurts the working class.

Leave the atom alone.

Energy independence is very important to me.

We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending. We have to go to a balanced budget. Quite frankly, as far as our debt goes, I don't think you can tax your way out of it. I think people are taxed enough.

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

We have a military policy instead of an energy policy.

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody's politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.

We must create a new culture to improve [nuclear] safety. After making sure that it is safe, we must restart nuclear energy.

If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

I think a lot about the Department of Energy. If I were the head of it, I would close it down.