“Record oil prices are driving oil industry profits through the roof, while Alaska’s working families struggle to keep their homes and feed their children. That must change. We need to invest in a clean energy future, by pursuing the Alaska pipeline. We’ve already taken ownership of this effort in Alaska, but you need a president who’s fighting with you to make it a reality. And that’s the kind of president I will be.”

“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,”
-Steven Chu [2008], Obama’s Secretary of Energy