Tom Carper

I am pleased that we were able to deliver significant, historic reforms by passing the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act, which Ranking Portman and I authored.

Secretary Mabus, you are a hero for a lot of Americans, and we are grateful for all of your service and for being with us today.

I called on President Biden to direct Attorney General Merrick Garland to establish a gasoline price gouging enforcement task force.

Taking advantage of a global crisis to the financial benefit of an industry is immoral behavior.

I am by nature an optimistic person. I come out of this hearing more optimistic, not less.

We need to take immediate steps to ease the pain for consumers at the gas pump right now for the American family.

We are all recognizing that, and something needs to be done here.

It is a question now of how fast we are going to go and how well we are going to do it.

I joined forces with my Republican Colleague, Senator Ernst, to introduce the Homefront Energy Independence Act.

Protecting hardworking American families from corporate greed, in my view, should be a bipartisan goal.

If we want to get real and move to our greatest strength in our Country, it has got to be plug in, baby, plug in.

I sense there is a fair amount of consensus here.

The Federal Government can accelerate this so much by policies and by the things that we incentivize.

We are going to lose the manufacturing ability, we are going to lose the ability to do the research and development that we need to do to lead in alternative energy.

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.

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.

Thanks in large part to our successful passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, ... we are very proud of our colleagues.

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you are right.

I like to quote Einstein, who said, among other things, in adversity, lies opportunity.

If we are going to be serious, we have to do everything we can to pass those tax breaks, pass the Climate Bank.

Before any oil and gas companies require to pay a fee, they would be offered assistance, up to three-quarters of a billion dollars of money would be set aside to help pay down the cost for actions taken by oil and gas companies to reduce…

We need to ensure that low-income communities have access to clean technologies and that no community is left behind.

We need policies that help our economy smoothly transition toward cleaner, American-made energy.