Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some f... by Jay Inslee

Goals Democrat Governor Environmentalist Washington

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

- Jay Inslee

Other quotes by Jay Inslee

Progress Now

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.

- Jay Inslee

Effect Fact

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

- Jay Inslee

Value American

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

- Jay Inslee

Country Fact Freedom

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

- Jay Inslee

Ideas

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.

- Jay Inslee

Power Will

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.

- Jay Inslee

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