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The U.K. is already disadvantaged on the wholesale cost of energy, and then it puts taxes on it. Anybody who's an energy user is just going to disappear.

— Jim Ratcliffe

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

— Dan Lipinski

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

— Jim Talent

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

— Tarja Halonen

I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.

— Tim Yeo

Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.

— Jim Ratcliffe

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.

— Cliff Stearns

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

— James Hansen

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

— Lee R. Raymond

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.

— Ted Cruz

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

— Bill Gates