"The bad news is that some D.C. policy makers appear to have declared a war on oil."
"I appreciate that it's not fully flushed out, if you will."
"Today, over 80% of the nation's total energy consumption comes from conventional sources like coal, oil, and natural gas."
"We cannot allow our domestic oil and gas production to be shut down in favor of increased dependence on foreign oil."
"Our renewable energy resources are wonderful and vast. We look forward to the time that you will come up to visit them."
"Our nation is blessed with abundant energy resources--both on land and beneath the surfaces of our lands and waters."
"We need to make sure that those resources are not closed off as we seek to develop more in terms of our renewables."
"We ought not to let the jurisdictional disputes with respect to ocean, tidal, wave energy essentially get in the way of us moving forward with that."
"I think FERC would be an appropriate one to do that, to the extent that it is this system that we're talking about."
"Energy security is a national goal and transmission infrastructure is a backbone requirement."
"Punishing the domestic oil and gas industry will not bring the age of renewable energy any faster."