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So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

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

We need to move away from oil, period.

But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil.

You can't keep bringing people in from other countries, finding them jobs when Americans need jobs first.