The Obama administration says we want to make 20 percent of our energy from wind.
Why would we encourage, why would we have a subsidy, why should 75 percent of the renewable energy subsidies go to wind power?
The President said at a town hall meeting in New Orleans we would be stupid, in his words, not to use nuclear power.
It is very important that we seize this moment of opportunity, this moment of truth, to do the right thing for the country.
I have a problem with the solution. I think the economy-wide cap and trade is taxes, mandates, surprises and unnecessary.
It will undermine the global competitiveness of America's manufacturers, it will weaken America's national security, and it's an energy tax ...
Yet, when this legislation is combined, Senator Carper described this as a technology-neutral cap, but when it is combined with the renewabl...
We have talked about it, as a matter of fact, before.
If I were picking, I would pick nuclear and leave wind alone.
The cost to the rate payer for nuclear, according to the National Academy, is 6 cents to 13 cents over the lifetime per kilowatt hour and 4 ...
I think the fine was fine. I think they should be fined for killing 85 birds.
To equal the production of one nuclear reactor, you would have to continuously forest an area the size of the Great Smoky Mountains.
The recommendations of the Nature Conservancy paper, I hope, are something this committee would take seriously.
I would like us to have a carbon-free electricity standard.
I would do that if you would join me in repealing in the $170 billion subsidy for wind power.
I accept the National Academy's conclusions that climate change is real and that humans have probably caused most of it recently.
If we make 20 percent of our electricity from wind turbines, that would be 1.4 million birds per year.
They warned that over the next 20 years new energy production, especially biofuels, will consume a land mass larger than the State of Nebras...
