Energy Price Quotes

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.

The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.

I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere.

One of course is to insure greater supply of energy for California's needs now and in the future in the sense that we are in discussions with representatives of Oregon and Washington, where they do have a surplus supply of energy available, and at what we hope will be a very reasonable price.

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.

The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased.

When you increase the cost of energy, jobs go elsewhere.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

The world should forget about cheap oil. The price will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

The U.K. is already disadvantaged on the wholesale cost of energy, and then it puts taxes on it. Anybody who's an energy user is just going to disappear.

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

Since 2000, we've seen base power rates rise by 50%.

It's very hard to go out and make big investments to take advantage of the shale energy if we don't know if it's always going to be there, what price it's going to be there, whether the country's going to allow it to be exported, or whether it's going to go and affect subsidized U.S. manufacturing.

We want to reach free energy markets, but with subsidy programmes for those with low income, and not to have the subsidy in the form of lowering the energy prices, but through other programmes.

The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

The cost of energy is directly related to the cost of hiring workers and running a business.

Two millennia later, many ancient Roman aqueducts remain serviceable … Operating with no external energy requirements, these brilliantly engineered channels functioned for centuries, … vulnerable only to seismic activity—and eventually of course to conquest. But despite modern materials and engineering methods, the water delivery service of the American West is comparatively ephemeral—for the sole reason that it depends so much on energy. We have built major cities in response to the engineered availability of water, and we did so in an era when energy was cheap and apparently plentiful, But ultimately the price of energy might be as destructive to our public water supplies as invading barbarians were to Rome’s.