Josh Fox Quotes

Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

One of the most important tasks is to broaden the energy supply ... Energy determines today international security and social as well as economic development in many respects. In reality the wellbeing of millions of people is directly dependent in energy security.

Indeed one streak in our economy, we're missing the big oil companies. We're missing other big energy companies. We're missing the big picture, and I have a record of trying to go at the problems that actually exist, and I will continue to do that.

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

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

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.

Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.

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.

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

Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.

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.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

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.

Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.

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

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.

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?

Oil demand is going to continue to grow as population grows.

The size of the energy sector in Mexico is just so vast; it has an outsize impact on the rest of the Mexican economy.

We have been blessed in many respects with the explosion of the development of shale gas resources here in North America. It's both U.S. and in Canada.