And few pieces of business are more important for us than getting our energy future right.
What will it take to bring this message home and meaningfully change our energy future?
For the good of our energy future, subsidies for all energy must eventually end.
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Every day, idea by idea, innovation by innovation, they are developing new technology that will help secure our energy future.
"We're not going to let the community down and we're not going to let our energy future down, " he said.
But we can develop a strategy to take control of our energy future and avoid gas spike prices down the line.
If indeed the speed of light can be exceeded, the implications may be staggering, and all speculation about our energy future is off.
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Because it represents 30 percent of our oil production, the Gulf of Mexico can play an important part in securing our energy future.
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Still, defeating such a bill is only the first in many, many steps along the arduous path to maximizing our own energy potential, and ultimately, completely securing our energy future.
Yet when one considers the need for affordable energy to power our homes and light our factories, only one plan stands a greater chance of success of securing our energy future.
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Fixing our economy, transforming our energy future, slowing and ultimately reversing climate change and its consequences will require a clear agenda and aggressive timetable that will allow us to repower, refuel and rebuild America.
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This President is committed to an all-of-the-above approach in our energy development, which means increasing production here at home, a focus on natural gas and its importance for our energy future, as well as investments in clean energy.
But there are other companies like British Petroleum, which is now the largest solar company in the world, which is betting on alternatives to energy being part of our energy future and is putting real dollars and real energy behind it.
The central idea is this: It's going to take a range of initiatives, from increased drilling to scientific breakthroughs in the development of renewable fuel sources, to put the United States on solid footing when it comes to our energy future.
While both coal and gas play important roles in our energy future, and there is another agenda to regulate coal-fired power plants out of existence, the claim is contrary to the well-accepted fact that the greenhouse gas impacts of burning natural gas are less than coal.
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He firmly believes that our energy future in this country will be more secure, and therefore our national security will be enhanced if we pursue policies that expand domestic oil and gas production, that aggressively invest in and expand renewable energy sources, that make investments, as this administration has, in nuclear energy -- that this is the way -- this is an approach that we have to take.
Through Recovery through Retrofit, we're committing to meet the needs of workers, employers and homeowners, so we can shape our clean energy future into one that supports working families and is inclusive of the diversity of our nation.
After years of talking about it, we're finally poised to control our own energy future.
After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future.
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So what John McCain has said is that we now need to take control of our own energy future.
The smart grid projects that were a part of our energy efficient future somehow have been recast as consumer protection issues.
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One of those challenges is building on the work that we've done to control our own energy future while reducing pollution that contributes to climate change.
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If we continue to invest in American potential, I am confident that new plants and factories will dot our landscape and new energy will power our future.
The point he has made in his energy speech and his statements about our need to address our long-term energy future is that there are no short-term fixes to this problem, and it is -- that are sustainable or dramatic because -- and this is what he addressed and talked about before, that we had a spike in 2008.
Financing might not be the first thing that comes to mind when talking about energy and sustainability, but it is an incredibly important part of our progress and our future capacity when it comes to saving energy and money in the Federal Government.
But just as ignoring deficits would mortgage our future, failing to invest in our kids, in our infrastructure, in our basic research and clean energy, that would be mortgaging our future as well.
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So, more broadly, I would just say that he is committed to a multidimensional or multisource approach to our energy needs in the future.
And the purpose of the trip is to make clear what we can do, what we are doing, and the kinds of approaches that are necessary to enhance our energy security in the future.
That is why, even as it cuts back on the programs we don't need, the budget I submit will invest in the three areas that are absolutely critical to our economic future: energy, health care, and education.
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