# The voices of a new clean energy future - June 16th, 2010

*Published:* 2010-06-16
*Author:* Rebecca Rasch

*The Huffington Post*– [“BP Disaster: Wake Up American and Smell the Crude Oil”](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-pelosi/bp-disaster-wake-up-ameri_b_613033.html "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-pelosi/bp-disaster-wake-up-ameri_b_613033.html")

By Christine Pelosi, *Campaign Boot Camp* author and California DNC member

> “Most Americans do see a connection between the BP disaster and America’s addiction to oil that leaves us beholden to the hazards of extractive technologies and the perils of oil-rich dictators.”

> “The public is there, the House Democrats are there — time for the President to move the Senate to ‘create a new energy policy that speaks to our dependence on foreign oil and deals seriously with global warming,’ Now that’s change I can believe in.”

*The Huffington Post* – [“The President’s Oval Office Address and What’s Next”](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-gore/the-presidents-oval-offic_b_614011.html "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-gore/the-presidents-oval-offic_b_614011.html")

By Al Gore, Former Vice President, Chairman of Current TV

> “I applaud President Obama’s call for a comprehensive legislative solution to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.”