#prices

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#drilling #energy #energy prices #fails #long

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#become #dependent #energy #fact #fossil

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#american #american consumers #billion #cannot #consumers

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#burden #continue #does #dollars #economy

The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#common-sense #direction #energy #energy security #future

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#environmental #excuse #extreme #gifts #give

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#better #costco #health #health benefits #i

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#distributed #expression #find #however #like

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#always #class #equate #feel #i

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#bear #broader #brought #companies #consequences