Ray Mabus: “Now is exactly the time that we have to diversify our energy sources.”

The fact that we allow these tyrants and dictators like Putin to basically hold our families and our economy hostage for their bad acts.

When America is called, the Navy and Marine Corps have always been there.

If we don't get an American-made, more stably-based source of fuel, if we don't get some competition into the fuel, we're looking at fewer soldiers, fewer sailors, fewer platforms.

As President George Washington said, it follows then as night succeeds the day that without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.