I appreciate that. It is actually in Edmond, Oklahoma, we have had some huge successes in teaching these young people and bringing them up.

I can't think of anyone more qualified for this job, with your background, which has been covered thoroughly.

I believe that there is a lot of effort now just to run this thing with a political agenda.

Now, Mr. Ashe, when I first read this thing, examine everything we do, every decision we make, every dollar we spend through the lens of climate change, what was your role in adopting that language?

The targets and timetables proposed would bring about the same result as cap-and-trade: higher energy costs, fewer jobs, and lower productivity.

our objective should be to ``increase domestic energy supplies--including wind, solar, geothermal, as well as oil, gas, nuclear, and coal--to make energy cleaner, more affordable, more abundant, and more reliable.'

They are currently cranking out still, last time I heard, some two coal-fired generators a week.

It's time to get back to basics: supporting and encouraging domestic energy production, onshore and offshore; removing tax and regulatory barriers to innovative clean energy technologies.

Activist groups are blocking their construction.

I am concerned about this, and concerned, of course, about the green jobs.

What all these policies that are being debated are doing are simply asking, will the jobs be in the industries that are most productive, or will it be in the jobs be in industries that Government programs are favoring and pushing.

I am spending quite a bit of my time on some of the over-regulation that is coming from the Environmental Protection Agency.

I question the need for a new Federal energy mandate.

I understand that our Chairman had started out with some of the things that are happening in China.

Our problem is, our politicians won't let us, we are the only country that can't exploit our own resources.

I guess I would end up with the notion that is not Government that creates jobs.

They have a rather cramped definition of 'clean'.

Imperil tens of thousands of jobs, that many more tens of thousands of jobs in the supply chains and in the communities where these plants are located also will be at risk.