Allen E. Murray Quotes

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

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

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

We won’t conserve our way to energy independence.

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?

I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.

We have to look at the long-term energy requirements of our country and how we figure out how to get off foreign oil. That is the ultimate goal because we are dependent so much on foreign oil that we are really strapped in what we can do as a country.

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.

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.

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.

Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

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

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

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

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

We should be sending our energy dollars to the Mid-West, not to the Middle East.

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 rising costs and risks of these fossil fuels are undercutting the security and prosperity they have enabled. Each day, the United States spends about $2 billion buying oil and loses another $4 billion indirectly to the macroeconomic costs of oil dependence, the microeconomic costs of oil price volatility, and the cost of keeping military forces ready for intervention in the Persian Gulf.

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

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

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

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