I am afraid that a good piece of this bill and other bills that we are seeing come out of the Congress are aimed, ostensibly, at increasing America's energy independence while at the same time they have elements that are decreasing our…

His answer is no.

American's combined recoverable natural gas, oil and coal reserves as the largest on earth. We are No. 1.

I think our concern was that if the Congress does not act in some fashion, does not provide some legislative and regulatory certainty, we are going to continue to have problems.

Let us keep in mind, too, that the costs that are going to be, now, if we are using the State of Missouri, we have heard your Senator, Kit Bond talk about how much it is going to cost the farmers.

this bill would do nothing to address your concerns since it will result in no temperature changes

The problem is not are there other resources out there because, I have said in the last two panels, recently it has been documented that we are No. 1 in terms of our resources, our reserves in coal, gas and oil. It is a matter that 83…

We have to have fossil fuels today to fight wars. This is a national security issue.

This, cap and trade, this type of arrangement, would cost a lot of jobs.

I agree that there will be a significant loss of jobs.

So the people of California are going to be paying the $850 billion that you have to pay.

We are going to have a lot of discussion hopefully today about jobs and get out of some of the personal attacks.

I do not plan to take that much.

The effects of climate change are the ambushers on the horizon.

However, while the military cannot stop climate change, it will be the institution that will be forced to deal with it.

The cost of cap-and-trade would be over $1,700 a year per household.

If we went full speed ahead, by 2030, nuclear would produce 40 percent of our electricity, natural gas 25 percent.

Now, we can make this country, including the North American continent, energy independent in 15 years, if we have some leadership to start developing in an environmentally friendly, efficient way to tap the energy resources that we have.