Best quotes by John S. Watson on Energy

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• ‟ Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.

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• ‟ The United States must recognize that access to reliable and affordable energy is the basis for economic expansion - and global competitiveness. And the nation must move from discouraging fossil fuel development - which is largely our approach today - to enabling it. We need all forms of energy to keep our economy strong.

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• ‟ First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

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• ‟ Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

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• ‟ The United States needs an energy policy that ensures America's tax, trade, regulatory and access policies are transparent and predictable.

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• ‟ For most of the countries I visit, getting affordable energy in the hands of the people is a preoccupation.

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• ‟ The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.

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• ‟ What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.

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• ‟ Every barrel of oil that we produce around the world benefits Americans because it keeps prices down. We can talk more later about American energy independence, but the facts are, every barrel we produce helps Americans because it keeps prices down.

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