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If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our…

— John Shadegg

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Every barrel of oil that we produce around the world benefits Americans because it keeps prices down. We can talk more later about American…

— John S. Watson

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the…

— Richard Lamm

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us…

— Virgil Goode

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have…

— George W. Bush

The U.S. couldn't play a military role in different areas like Iraq and Afghanistan without huge quantities of oil. So a shortage or disruption…

— Michael Klare

If oil prices will go too high, it will slow down the world economy and would trigger a global recession.

— Khalid A. Al-Falih

Although the United States cannot unilaterally lower the price of oil, it can reduce its consumption by using oil more efficiently and by developing…

— Richard Thaler

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

— Paul Gillmor

Oil is a tangible commodity, so there is a global market. The fact that we may need less may affect the global price because…

— Thomas Friedman

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the…

— Milton Friedman