06/08/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"Last, I will quote a former Saudi oil minister from the country I was the Ambassador to. He said the Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones; it ended because we invented something better."
"We have a moral obligation to leave no community behind in our energy transition."
"We can tell Russia we don't need their oil any more than we need their caviar."
"This is Putin's oil spike, there is no doubt about that. This is Putin's price spike."