Sherwood Boehlert Quotes

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

America is addicted to oil which is often imported from the most unstable part of the world.

Our oil policy should be to find more and use less.

Although the United States cannot unilaterally lower the price of oil, it can reduce its consumption by using oil more efficiently and by developing alternative sources of fuel.

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

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry.

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

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

President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

How the United States chose to deal with its growing reliance on foreign oil would determine its future.

Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.

I stopped - just killed - President Obama's $10-a-barrel gas tax.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

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

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.