the world will use more oil and gas in the future and not less, for the usefully foreseeable future.

But if members of this committee naively think that other nations are waiting for America to lead, they're wrong.

So hopefully our panelists today won't insult us by saying that rejoining the Paris Agreement will solve America's environmental dilemma.

Let's not--I will make a deal with you.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

the beneficiaries will be China, in terms of exporting the so-called green products, minerals, and Russia and the Middle East in terms of exporting the oil and gas.

I look forward to a thoughtful discussion and I yield back.

is it fair to say that China would be the one, the top geopolitical and financial beneficiary of such a policy?

These hard-working men and women ... deserve more respect than this.

What happens to Gillette, Wyoming; Hazard, Kentucky; Cadiz or Welch? What happens to those in the meantime?

There are no solar panel or wind turbine manufacturing plants in Gillette, Wyoming; Hazard, Kentucky; Cadiz, Ohio; or Welch, West Virginia.

Based on these experiences, neither a President nor a Congress should ever put a regulation in place before a bipartisan transition plan has been adopted.

I think I have a good leg to stand on in this, because I live there, have seen it.

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