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It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.