We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

Recent activities
Since 2007 Boehlert has remained active promoting environmental and scientific causes. Boehlert currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Due to his centrist views Time Magazine also recognized Boehlert as a “power center” on Capitol Hill and Congressional Quarterly named him one of the 50 most effective Members of Congress.

Sherwood "Sherry" Louis Boehlert (born September 28 1936) is a retired American politician from New York. In 2003 Utica Union Station was renamed in the Congressman's honor.