41 Quotes by Jerry Taylor

It's not the government's job to design automobiles. Also, there's a great deal of unrealistic expectation about what fuel-efficient cars can do. If the government really wants to secure reduction in oil consumption for cars, it should just leave gas prices alone. With enough time, consumers will reduce their consumption in response to higher costs.

It's overwhelming because there are so many things to do.

It's possible, but that kind of reduction doesn't protect us from supply disruption. If we don't import oil from Iran, if they removed themselves from the market, it would increase crude prices regardless of where we're getting our oil.

The auto fleet turns over slowly, usually every 10 to 12 years. You're not going to see SUVs replaced by hybrids any time soon.

It turned out very well and I'm very happy with the book and all the work she put into it.

It takes a real big price increase to get a little bit of reduced consumption.

It will cost billions to fix it, but unfortunately for environmentalists, it's not a very sexy problem.

This is less about Americans' addiction to oil than to Republican politicians' addiction to polls. The rhetoric is bracing but the proposals are mercifully trivial.

This is just a bunch of freaks out there that don't have anything better to do.