In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.
The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers.
By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.
Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through low energy prices.
The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.
I look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.
My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Our safety and security is more important than ever, and Congress needs to take an active role in enforcing international agreements that support global security.
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
Sometimes officials should look at English football and let us play more. I like their system because, in Europe, their referees are more lenient.
My first season in English football was very special. I hope to go on to achieve even more as a Chelsea player.
When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
The American work ethic is, thankfully, still deeply engraved in rural Nebraska souls. This is who we are, and we here in Nebraska have far more to teach Washington, D.C. than Washington, D.C. has to teach us.
I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.
