Foreign Oil Quotes

• By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy.

  Jim Ryun

  Jobs, Oil, New Job

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• This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

  Jimmy Carter

  Real, Oil, Independence

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life."

  Jon Stewart

  Morning, Mean, Circles

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• If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

  Al Gore

  Sky, Oil, Discovery

  "What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?". Interview With John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

  Jon Corzine

  Oil, Dependent

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• We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Leadership, Money, Moving

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• The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.

  Al Gore

  Running, Years, Usa

  "'I Am Optimistic'". Interview with Philip Bethge, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 02, 2009.

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• Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, Oil

  "White House, Saudis: No election deal on oil". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

  Steve Chabot

  Oil, House, Energy

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• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  Bart Gordon

  Country, Oil, Next

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• Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Technology, Aggravation, Oil

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• I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we're buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I'm not sure we should say that's evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don't have a huge objection to that.

  Jay Inslee

  Wind, Oil, Evil

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

  Bob Dylan

  Oil, Politics, Soil

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Country, Home, Thinking

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• Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

  Christina Romer

  Oil, Going Away, Climate

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• You know, we can't keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil, and the need to deal with global warming, and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God's creation, and just let business as usual go on. And that means something has to be taken away from some people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, Mean, Talking

  "Special Edition: Sojourners Presidential Forum". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer and Soledad O'Brien, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2007.

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• Bill Ford, Jr., is somebody who wants to move this industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Moving, Independent, Oil

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 31, 2009.

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• [Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Reflection, Oil

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

  Tim Johnson

  Wind, Oil, America

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• We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

  Rick Renzi

  Meaningful, Moving, Oil

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• We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

  Paul Gillmor

  Meaningful, Country, Commitment

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• 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.

  Virgil Goode

  Moving, Oil, Important

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• The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and our dependency on foreign oil, will come from energy efficiency and conservation in the next 20 years. Make no doubt about it. That's where everybody who has really thought about the problem thinks the biggest gains can be and should be.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "Steven Chu, Obama's Point Man on Energy, Says Conservation Is "Sexy". Interview with Kent Garber, www.usnews.com. March 19, 2009.

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• In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Taken, Moving

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

  Bill Shuster

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Oil

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