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There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.

You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

There is an incredible renewable energy resource off both coasts of this country - wind and tidal energy that can power our economy, create good paying jobs and reduce greenhouse gas pollution.

There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those.

We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.

Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home.