9 Quotes by Gal Luft

With the Chinese there are no strings attached. They don't talk to you about democracy or reform. They give money, the Saudis give oil and there are no hidden agendas. The Saudis find those kinds of relationships more appealing.

The president's initiative ties an oil savings target to a basket of energy solutions for homes and businesses, which have nothing to do with our oil problem.

Everywhere the Chinese go in the developing world, they go with a lot of development money.

There is a lot we can learn from Brazil. They are doing great things,

We see attacks on a regular basis. Since the end of major military operations in April of 2003, there have been close to 250 attacks against oil pipelines, refineries and oil facilities and that has been pretty significant in reducing... up to a million barrels a day of potential production,

Oil prices are not going down, they're going up. And if you don't have a car that can deal with that, you're dead.

It makes no sense to tax ethanol coming in from friendly countries like Brazil when we do not tax oil imported from countries like Saudi Arabia.

It's remarkable that we're not taxing fuel from Saudi Arabia while we're taxing fuel from Brazil.

If you want to send your dollars to the worst regimes in the Middle East, use gasoline -- if you want to send your dollars to the best farms and communities in the Middle West, then use alcohol made from the agricultural resources we grow at home.