Speeches, Articles, Transcripts, and Press Releases

Senator Lugar regularly demonstrates his commitment to energy security through speaking engagements, opinion editorials and press releases. His awareness-raising efforts date back decades.

The Fundamentals: Understanding the Lugar Energy Initiative

• Lugar-Purdue Summit on Energy Security Keynote Address
  Senator Lugar's address to the Summit on Energy Security, Aug. 29, 2006
• U.S. Energy Security – A New Realism
  Senator Lugar's speech to the Brookings Institution, Mar. 13, 2006
• The Existential Threat
  Senator Lugar's speech to the U.N. Security Council, Feb. 6, 2006
• The New Petroleum
  By Senator Lugar and R. James Woolsey, as submitted to Foreign Affairs magazine, Jan./Feb. 1999
• Curing America's Oil Addiction
  Transcript from Foreign Policy's Special Event featuring Senator Lugar and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, May 15, 2006

Speeches

• Lugar Summarizes Energy Mission, Encourages Energy Dialogue with Latin America
  Senator Lugar's keynote speech the 4th Annual Western Hemisphere Energy Security and Cooperation Forum, September 9, 2008
• Lugar: 'One of today's big ideas should be the eradication of hunger worldwide'
  Senator Lugar's speech at the roll-out of the CSIS Global Food Security Task Force, July 29, 2008
• Lugar Calls for Action in Global Food Crisis
  Senator Lugar's speech at the American Enterprise Institute, July 2, 2008
• Lugar Calls for Trans-Atlantic Energy Security Strategy
  Senator Lugar's speech to U.S. – Ukraine Energy Dialogue Series, Apr. 15, 2008
• Lugar Addresses Global Environmental Concerns with Optimism
  Senator Lugar's speech to the Garden Club of America, Feb. 27, 2008
• Lugar's Answer to $100 per barrel Oil
  Senator Lugar's speech at the Indiana Renewable Energy Forum, Jan. 4, 2008
• U.S. Energy Security and the 2008 Presidential Election
  Senator Lugar's speech to the Brookings Institution, Dec. 18, 2007
• Lugar Speech to 2020 Vision 2nd Annual National Summit on Energy Security
  Senator Lugar's speech to the 2020 Vision’s 2nd Annual National Summit on Energy Security at the National Press Club, July 12, 2007
• Energy dependence is perpetuated by a lack of national will and focus
  Senator Lugar's keynote speech to the Deloitte Energy Conference, May 14, 2007
• Lugar Speech to Environmental Defense Board of Trustees
  Senator Lugar's speech to the Environmental Defense Board of Trustees, May 9, 2007
• EU and U.S. Must Move Now to Address Energy Vulnerability
  Senator Lugar's speech to the American Council on Germany, coordinated with the EU-U.S. Summit, Apr. 30, 2007
• Energy and NATO
  Senator Lugar's keynote speech to the German Marshall Fund conference in Riga, Latvia, in advance of the NATO Summit, Monday, Nov. 27, 2006
• Lugar: Imported Oil Makes U.S. Vulnerable
  Senator Lugar's speech to the Richard G. Lugar-Purdue University Summit on Energy Security, Aug. 29, 2006
• How Changes in the Arctic are Affecting the Rest of the World
  Senator Lugar's speech to Capitol Hill forum “How Changes in the Arctic are Affecting the Rest of the World” sponsored by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute and the Norwegian Embassy, June 15, 2006
• Enrolling the Lugar Farm in the Chicago Climate Exchange
  Senator Lugar's comments on becoming the first Hoosier farmer to participate in the Chicago Climate Exchange, May 18, 2006
• U.S. Energy Security – A New Realism
  Senator Lugar's speech to the Brookings Institution, Mar. 13, 2006
• The Existential Threat
  Senator Lugar's speech to the U.N. Security Council, Feb. 6, 2006

Articles

• Heal the International Atomic Energy Agency
  By Senator Lugar, as published in Defense News, September 21, 2008
• Bridging the Gap on Climate Change
  By Senator Lugar and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Washington Post, July 14, 2008
• It's unfair to single out ethanol as cause of food crisis
  By Senator Lugar, as published in the Indianapolis Star, May 22, 2008
• Reform Required to Halt Wide Spectrum of Woes
  By Senator Lugar, as published in Roll Call, Apr, 21, 2008
• Brazil-U.S. Ethanol Pact: Benefits Greatly Outweigh Costs
  By Senator Lugar, as published in the National Interest, Apr. 9, 2007
• The Biofuels Security Act: For a Stronger America
  By Senator Lugar, as published in Ethanol Today, Mar. 2007
• U.S., Brazil should lead biofuel plan
  By Senator Lugar and José Miguel Insulza, as published in the Miami Herald, Feb. 26, 2007
• Hidden Subsidies and Risks Pump Up Real Price of Oil
  By Senator Lugar, as submitted to nature, Jan. 2007
• A Nuclear Fuel Bank Advocated
  By Senators Lugar and Evan Bayh, as submitted to the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2006
• We Can End Oil Addiction
  By Senator Lugar and Vinod Khosla, as submitted to the Washington Times, Aug. 3, 2006
• Poorer by the Gallon
  By Senator Lugar, as submitted to the International Herald Tribune, June 9, 2006
• The New Energy Realists
  By Senator Lugar, as submitted to the National Interest, Summer 2006
• Friends Working on Common Goals on Economy, Energy
  By Senator Lugar and Brazilian Ambassador to the U.S. Roberto Abdenur, as submitted to the Miami Herald, May 6, 2006
• America Needs a Handle on Energy
  By Senator Lugar, as submitted to Roll Call for the Energy and Environment Policy Briefing, Apr. 24, 2006
• Thinking Outside The Barrel
  By Senator Lugar, as submitted to Business Week, Mar. 27, 2006
• Indiana poised to be leader in autos, energy and biofuels
  By Senator Lugar and Representative Pete Visclosky, as submitted to the Post Tribune, Mar. 6, 2006
• Energy: The Albatross of National Security
  By Senator Lugar, as submitted to Conservative Environmental Policy - Quarterly, Spring 2006
• Are Alternatives to Fossil Fuels Really Viable?
  Letter to the editor by Senator Lugar, as submitted to the Wall Street Journal, Feb. 13, 2006
• Let's Lead the Pack in a New Auto-Tech Boom
  By Senator Lugar, as submitted to the Indianapolis Star, Feb. 5, 2006
• Complexities Require Bipartisan Approach
  By Senator Lugar, as submitted to The Hill for the Special Report: The Agenda Ahead, Feb. 1, 2006
• United States' Oil Dependence Threatens National Security
  By Senator Lugar, as submitted to the South Bend Tribune, Nov. 25, 2005
• The New Petroleum
  By Senator Lugar and and R. James Woolsey, as submitted to Foreign Affairs magazine, Jan./Feb. 1999

Transcripts

• Senators Harkin, Lugar, Dorgan, Obama Hold a Press Conference on the Biofuels Security Act, Jan. 25, 2007
• Curing America's Oil Addiction
  Transcript from Foreign Policy's Special Event featuring Senator Lugar and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, May 15, 2006

Press Releases

• Harkin, Lugar Introduce Measure To Increase Number of Flex-fuel Vehicles, September 12, 2008
• Oil is 85 percent of July Trade Deficit, September 11, 2008
• Lugar to Europeans: Biotech Breakthroughs Critical to Feeding World, September 2, 2008
• Lugar Calls for European Leaders to Act on Energy Security, August 28, 2008
• Lugar Continues Energy Security Mission, August 20, 2008
• Americans spent 10 times as much on oil imports in June than was invested in all new U.S. ethanol producing capacity last year, August 12, 2008
• Lugar Names President of Castalia Homes as Energy Patriot, August 8, 2008
• Purdue University Receives Biofuels Research Grant, August 6, 2008
• U.S. Contributes $50 million to establish International Nuclear Fuel Bank, August 5, 2008
• Lugar joins National Farmers Union announcement of carbon credit payments, July 29, 2008
• Department of Commerce to Offer Webinar on E-85, July 24, 2008
• Purdue study shows complex causes of soaring food and fuel costs, July 23, 2008
• Lugar, Harkin introduce bill to help create ethanol pipeline, July 21, 2008
• Lugar applauds Lake Central School Corporation on energy efforts, July 18, 2008
• Biden/Lugar/Menendez/Hagel Bill Tackles International Climate Change by Funding Clean Technology, July 16, 2008
• Americans spent 284 times as much on oil imports in May as on federal energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, July 11, 2008
• Lugar Names Union City Native as Energy Patriot, July 8, 2008
• Lugar Welcomes DOE Federal Loan Guarantee Announcement, July 2, 2008
• Lugar to President: Prioritize Global Food Crisis at G8, July 1, 2008
• Lugar Announces DOE to Invest Approximately $1.3 Billion to Commercialize CCS Technology, June 24, 2008
• Department of State Accepting Grant Applications for Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, June 18, 2008
• Lugar to make recommendations on food security, June 17, 2008
• City of South Bend to receive $400,000 for Brownfields Cleanup, June 13, 2008
• Lugar: We can improve our food and economic security, June 6, 2008
• Lugar recognizes first wind farm in Indiana, May 28, 2008
• Lugar says energy security, food security both necessary, Mary 22, 2008
• Lugar Meets with Rose-Hulman Challenge X Team, May 20, 2008
• Lugar says the fiscal, food and trade policy costs of the Farm Bill 'too great and too damaging,' May 14, 2008
• Lugar Requests Flag in Honor of Alexandria Ethanol Plant, Apr. 18, 2008
• Lugar Calls for Trans-Atlantic Energy Security Strategy, Apr. 15, 2008
• Lugar Welcomes 100th E85 Pump in Indiana, Apr. 11, 2008
• Does It Pay To Go Green?, Mar. 17, 2008
• Lugar Discusses Biofuels, Environment with Leilani Münter, Mar. 5, 2007
• Lugar praises successful test flight of Boeing 747-400 using biofuels, Feb. 26, 2008
• Lugar Warns Venezuela on Oil Cut-off, Feb. 13, 2008
• Job Grants for Energy Industry, Jan. 29, 2008
• Lugar continues his energy security mission in Azerbaijan, Jan. 15, 2008
• Lugar discusses energy security with Kazakh and Turkmen leaders, Jan. 14, 2008

Read press releases from 2007

Read the press releases from the 109th Congress