Kateri Callahan Quotations

The only way to ease the pain of record energy prices for consumers and businesses alike, and to address critical energy-related security and environmental issues, is to back up the rhetoric with the reality of adequate federal funding for key energy-efficiency programs.

When dirt blocks the filter, your system has to work that much harder.

Those products will typically save you about 30 percent over non-Energy Star labeled products in energy costs during the life of the product.

You get the tax credit based on the purchase price of the product and the installation and it's up to 10 percent of that cost to a max of $500 will be returned to you by Uncle Sam.

To be fair, the law is very complicated. However, it is the IRS's obligation to issue guidelines and give direction immediately.

Even drawing from our existing power plants, plug-in vehicles have the potential to cut a vehicle's petroleum consumption by three-fourths or more, can operate at as little as one-fourth the fuel cost, and reduce greenhouse gases by two-thirds. As we increasingly turn to alternative technologies to improve the fuel economy of our vehicles, we will see increasing benefits to our economy, our environment, and our national security.

The momentum usually gets to a fever pitch when the prices get high. You can bet that the members of Congress are hearing from their constituents.

It's going to be a significant, really, a shocking increase in prices this winter that we're anticipating.

It's still decades away no matter how you cut it.

The bill passed by the House and Senate will increase the use of energy efficiency technologies to extend our nation's energy supplies. But, the bill falls far short of making energy efficiency a cornerstone of U.S. energy policy. Most alarming is the bill's failure to curtail our growing and dangerous oil addiction in the transportation sector, which accounts for two-thirds of total U.S. oil use.

They zeroed it out. Buildings use 39 percent of the total energy used in the country. There are 1.5 million new homes built. ... It's important that we have these codes in place and enforced and understood.

It's not a huge amount.... We would have liked it to be more.

In the face of energy costs that have ballooned to roughly $4,500 a year for the average American family, the administration is proposing cuts in key energy-efficiency programs such as building codes, the Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star program, and weatherization programs.

He's the Smokey the Bear of the 21st Century. People may be motivated to save energy, but they may not know how.