David J. C. MacKay Quotes

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

The world’s demand for energy will never stop.

We've recognized that natural gas would be the fastest-growing of the conventional fuels: oil, natural gas, coal. And so, we see the important role that natural gas will play globally and, more importantly, the important role it will play in the U.S. in terms of meeting future energy demand.

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 must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

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.

We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

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

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

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

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

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.

The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

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.

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

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.

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.