Environmental Quote by Sherwood Boehlert

Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.

— Ari Shapiro

Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws…

— Josh Fox

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

— Pete Domenici

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would…

— Rosa DeLauro

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I…

— Jeff Bingaman

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

— Sherwood Boehlert

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

— Gordon Brown

The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy…

— Gina McCarthy

In the United States, liberals have made it virtually impossible [to increase the supply of oil] by banning drilling in all sorts of places…

— Thomas Sowell

An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas…

— Charles Krauthammer

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards…

— Ed Markey

Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.

— David Neeleman