Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today I am introducing legislation to help the Pentagon turn energy from a source of risk to a source of advantage. The Department of Defense, DOD, Energy Security Act would decrease the Pentagon's consumption of petroleum, reduce reliance on the grid, and help plan for the future. All of this would help achieve an important goal that we all support: enhancing our national security. I am grateful to my former colleague on the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who introduced the counterpart bill in the House of Representatives. I am also grateful to Senator Bennet for cosponsoring this legislation. I look forward to continuing to work with both of them on this important legislation and on this important issue. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I have focused on the intersection of defense and energy for some time. The United States is the world's largest consumer of energy. We depend on foreign imports for nearly 60 percent of our oil. Nearly every military challenge we face is either derived from or impacted by our reliance on fossil fuels and foreign energy sources. The Pentagon is a large microcosm of this even larger problem. The U.S. military is the single largest consumer of energy in the world-- consuming more energy per day than 85 percent of the world's countries.…”