Joe Barton Energy Quotations

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.

I'd like to see Exxon Mobil take some of their $10 billion and announce some refinery expansion,

I tell my environmental friends that they have won, ... Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is looked at from an environmental perspective.

threatened by China's aggressive tactics to lock up energy supplies around the world that are largely dedicated for their own use.

We cannot stop hurricanes, but we can mitigate some of these adverse impacts on our energy infrastructure and our economy that hurricanes can have. We need to tackle this problem for one simple reason: Our country needs more oil refineries because the people who work for a living need gasoline to get to work.

Then Hurricane Katrina hit, and energy is back on the agenda big time,

If there is a silver lining in this tragic situation, it may be that our country understands how fragile our energy sector is. ... We can't just get our oil and gas from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf of Mexico. We need to diversify our domestic oil resources.

If there is a silver lining in this, it is that it may finally bring home to the American people how fragile our energy sector is and our energy infrastructure is.