Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
Jay Robert Insleeis an American politician and lawyer who has served as the 23rd Governor of Washington since January 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 February 1951
CountryUnited States of America
consume including oil percent reserves
We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.
wind oil evil
I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we're buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I'm not sure we should say that's evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don't have a huge objection to that.
oil addiction united-states
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
jobs oil progress
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.
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If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.
oil giving addiction
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
allow beauty cannot companies internet open
We cannot allow telecommunications companies to hijack the Internet. After all, the beauty of the Internet is its open architecture.
children president recently
The president recently asked, 'Is our children learning?' Well in this budget, they is not.
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Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.
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I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.
appear charge full general inspector seeing single wisely
It does not appear that there is a single inspector general who is in full charge of seeing that these monies are wisely spent.
duplicate failures seen
The abuses and failures we've seen in Iraq; we don't want to duplicate those here at home,
duplicate failures iraq seen
The abuses and failures we've seen in Iraq -- we don't want to duplicate those here at home,
act endangered ensure habitat mechanism species
What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure that their habitat is protected? It is nothing, ... This is not a modernization of the act. This is a euthanization.