Sherwood Boehlert

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil…

— Sherwood Boehlert

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first…

— Sherwood Boehlert

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to…

— Sherwood Boehlert

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans…

— Sherwood Boehlert

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear…

— Sherwood Boehlert

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give…

— Sherwood Boehlert

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new…

— Sherwood Boehlert

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer…

— Sherwood Boehlert

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum…

— Sherwood Boehlert

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements.…

— Sherwood Boehlert

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent…

— Sherwood Boehlert

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the…

— Sherwood Boehlert

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action,…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

— Sherwood Boehlert