If we enact cap-and-trade legislation, fuel prices will rise, and more jobs in the trucking sector will be lost.

Do you really think, in this Washington environment, that these things are going to rebated back? I think probably not.

As to the fact that it does not cost anything, well somebody is going to be paying up to $100 billion a year.

Costs matter. We should be looking for the cheap, easy way to do this, not for the hard, expensive way to do it.

consumers would pay almost $54 billion more annually for gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other petroleum products.

We cannot lessen our dependence on foreign oil through taxes, mandates and bureaucracy.

It is a little bit laughable when people say we want to do something about dependence on the Middle East to run this country called America.

There is no debate about this: cap-and-trade will make gasoline more expensive for American consumers.

Whatever the solution, we can't lessen our dependence on foreign oil through taxes, mandates, and bureaucracy.

it's all pain for no climate gain.

I believe that it is enough of a problem that we ought to buy some insurance.

if cap-and-trade achieved its intended effect, that is, to prevent the global climate catastrophe, then farmers would be the first to sign up to help.

if the U.S. chooses to enact cap-and-trade unilaterally without China, India and other developing nations... then farmers will be forced to pay for a solution that doesn't work.

There is not any tax increase in Waxman-Markey.

it is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. It is going to be the largest tax increase in history.

the devil is in the details. Unfortunately, this devil has the potential to devastate our economy, reduce the standard of living for most or all Americans, and could make us more reliant on not only foreign energy, but also foreign…

I look forward to working through and discussing the many challenges ahead.

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