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.
Logically, it could be China. It is my understanding that China is cranking out currently some two coal-fired generating plants a week.
In a relatively short span, climate change has turned the already poor nation of Bangladesh into a failed state.
What we see, as we testified earlier, the companies that are in the global commodities business... those are the companies that are going to...
It does hit the Heartland more, that the costs we are talking about is somewhere between $300 billion and $400 billion a year.
The last power plant, base load power plant we built in Missouri came on line in 1983.
The effects of climate change are the ambushers on the horizon.
I certainly hope that you folks can get into as much detail as you can in terms of the numbers of jobs, manufacturing jobs, Valero jobs, whe...
However, while the military cannot stop climate change, it will be the institution that will be forced to deal with it.
I think that shows why talking about a postage stamp a day or $100 a year may make sense for our country.
Whatever policy is developed has got to have the support of the consumers.
This bill is a massive new tax on consumers that will have virtually no effect on climate.
I believe this cap-and-trade concept is a bad idea in any climate, and is a particularly horrible idea in this deep recession.
If countries like China and India and Russia are not part of a carbon reduction global program, that it does not matter what we do.
The cost of cap-and-trade would be over $1,700 a year per household.
I have been observing over the last 2 and a half hours or whatever it has been how quickly we forget here in these hallowed halls, the insul...
