Lawmakers boasted of more efficient vehicles, less dependence on foreign oil, cleaner fuel sources and punishment for oil companies that dared to engage in price gouging.
And vitally, Americans will find another American a more trustworthy oil spill cleaner than they would another Brit.
Calmer heads are already working on the details of a better proposal: a new route, improved technology and perhaps cleaner oil.
Stimulus money is pouring out of Washington and Ottawa, some of it already earmarked for research and technology to help the oil industry produce cleaner fuels.
Rather we need to invest in cleaner oil and gas exploration and production technologies in the short term, and the commercialization of alternative energy technologies for the longer term.
Today they shared the stage along with elected officials and others that have long been proponents of today's policy in celebrating something that I said -- as I said before, will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, make our planet cleaner, and is a win for everybody involved.
The president will counter with a two pronged-approach: reducing oil imports and developing markets for cleaner energy.
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Producing fuel from plant crops is supposed to be greener than drilling for oil, and biofuels generally burn cleaner, too.
These are already cheaper and cleaner than burning coal, oil and gas with all their pollutants, especially CO2.
While methane is a cleaner source of energy than oil or coal when burnt, on its own it is an unusually powerful heat-trapping agent -- perhaps 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
The BP oil disaster is like a signal flare warning us that we must reduce our oil use via investments in more efficient, cleaner energy technologies.
Natural gas is a cleaner fuel than coal and crude oil and is becoming increasingly important with governments across the world encouraging the production and use of natural gas over coal and crude oil for energy generation.
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But will high oil prices lead to the goal of greater efficiency and a cleaner environment?
Politicians these days, especially Senators Obama and Clinton, routinely bash the oil companies and call for more efforts to come up with cleaner alternative fuels.
It's pitching its electric transmission systems and its electricity-sparing motors to the dirtiest industries--utilities, mining, oil and gas, and heavy manufacturing--as a way of becoming a little bit cleaner and more efficient.
The U.S. oil industry has blamed the high prices on new federal regulations that require Midwestern gasoline producers to provide cleaner-burning gasoline reformulated with a more expensive additive.
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