The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you increase the cost of energy, jobs go elsewhere.
Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.
The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.
Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.
The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.
As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.
The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.
Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.
The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.