14 Quotes by Kateri Callahan

The only way to ease the pain of record energy prices for consumers and businesses alike, and to address critical energy-related security and environmental issues, is to back up the rhetoric with the reality of adequate federal funding for key energy-efficiency programs.

When dirt blocks the filter, your system has to work that much harder.

Those products will typically save you about 30 percent over non-Energy Star labeled products in energy costs during the life of the product.

You get the tax credit based on the purchase price of the product and the installation and it's up to 10 percent of that cost to a max of $500 will be returned to you by Uncle Sam.

To be fair, the law is very complicated. However, it is the IRS's obligation to issue guidelines and give direction immediately.

Even drawing from our existing power plants, plug-in vehicles have the potential to cut a vehicle's petroleum consumption by three-fourths or more, can operate at as little as one-fourth the fuel cost, and reduce greenhouse gases by two-thirds. As we increasingly turn to alternative technologies to improve the fuel economy of our vehicles, we will see increasing benefits to our economy, our environment, and our national security.

The momentum usually gets to a fever pitch when the prices get high. You can bet that the members of Congress are hearing from their constituents.

It's going to be a significant, really, a shocking increase in prices this winter that we're anticipating.

It's still decades away no matter how you cut it.