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Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

The breath of fresh air is having President Biden come on and put in some direction, and some supervision and leadership. It`s been wonderful. So, we know where we`re going now. He said, basically, I don`t want to go down the path we went…

In West Virginia we say coal keeps the lights on, which it does, but it also powers a lot of vehicles, and it employs a lot of people.

I think that we have used the EDA actually really well in West Virginia most recently on a lot of different infrastructure development and job training and development.

If we disenfranchise a lot of the power sources that we can make cleaner in the process, I am talking natural gas and coal, that now provides our baseline fuel, I mean our baseline power here in this country, we are going to stick the plug…

I think that is very aspirational. I saw where the President said he wants all thorough vehicles to be electric.

I would hope that the transparency pledge would follow through on that, if you reach decisions, who is making that decision and how it was determined.

Thank you again for your service to this Committee. I know you will do great work over on Energy.

We should be engaging on how we continue to develop these new technologies from out of the ground to the finished product, because that is good for our economy, it is good for jobs, and it gives us that competitive advantage that I would…

I have to see if any other of our witnesses have anything to comment on the Paris Accord, how we hold people accountable.

The bottom line with China is they are keeping their own records.

And with that, I want to thank all the witnesses. You all have been wonderful.

If they are going to say we belong to the Paris Accord, but they are not going to attain any achievements whatsoever in meeting the net zero carbon by 2050, how can we enforce that?

My understanding of the Paris Accord is there are different timetables for different participants.

American innovation is the key to reducing global emissions and our goal should be to encourage and support that process and that progress.

Undermining America's energy security will not solve climate change.

Eliminating U.S. fossil fuels is not going to change any of that.

We have to stop fooling ourselves into thinking that eliminating U.S. fossil fuel production is going to solve the problem, because it won't.