Maria Cantwell Energy Quotations

The bill gives oil companies a free ride with backdoor language that allows them to circumvent environmental laws, legal standards, federal agency oversight that every other business in America has to comply with. ... America wants a better energy plan than putting a sweetheart deal in the budget language,

I want to give the president all the tools possible, ... ...Giving the president power to declare an energy emergency sends a very sharp message to people that we are going to be coming after them

Using backdoor tactics to destroy America's last great wild frontier will not solve our nation's energy problems and will do nothing to lower skyrocketing gas prices,

We need to give our children a future less dependent on fossil fuel, ... According to the Energy Department's latest analysis, even if oil companies drill in the wildlife refuge and hit peak production, it will only lower gas prices by a penny per gallon.

The Department of Energy says that drilling in ANWR will do little in the near term and very little in the long term, reducing gas prices by only one penny,

America wants a better energy plan than putting a sweetheart deal (for oil companies) in the budget,