Political Quotes

“what ANWR represents to this country is energy security, national security, from the perspective of reducing our vulnerability on foreign sources of oil. When we talk about vulnerability in this country, and recognizing the vulnerability and the exposure of our men and women who are serving us over in Iraq, over in Afghanistan, we have to do everything we possibly can in this country to provide for their protection. Eighty percent of the Government's oil consumption is by our military. We need to keep this in mind. If we can do anything more to help with our domestic production so that we can decrease this reliance, we need to do so. What ANWR offers to us is energy security, domestic security in the sense of jobs, and truly environmental security. I need to stress that. We have been doing a responsible job up North for the past 30 years. We want to continue that, to fill the pipeline that is now about half capacity. Let me amplify a bit on why ANWR is so important for this Nation. Since we debated ANWR during the budget resolution process this spring, we have finished a 14-year-effort to craft a new comprehensive energy bill. In that bill we have provided incentives and tax breaks to increase renewable energy: wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, ocean energy supplies. We promoted, by tax breaks, the purchase of hybrid and alternate clean cars to cut fuel consumption. We also mandated a doubling of the production of ethanol to help displace foreign oil.…”