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Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

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.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.

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.

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

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

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.