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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.

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy.

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.