Pastoral Resources

If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy.

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.