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Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.

When you increase the cost of energy, jobs go elsewhere.

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

I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere.