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It is frustrating, I know for myself and I am sure for Senator Capito at times, they believe because we come from West Virginia and we represent West Virginia that we do not care about the environment.

I would hate to say, but the Pennsylvania tax credit that they have was a pretty big carrot for them.

That is an interesting technology, too, on the renewable side with the battery storage.

Is the reason that we are not building them here--is it the expense, the regulatory environment, the fear of the unknown, or a little bit of each?

We are not building another plant like Longview in this country at this time, correct?

We are located within two-thirds of the population of the United States of American and one-third that of Canada.

Gas is still interruptible no matter what you do with the pipeline.

I do not know all the answers but I know that it is absolutely crippling West Virginia.

I think you acknowledged that in your report.

In that case time is money if you have a permit application and you do not get permitted for five years, it exponentially increases the cost.

I think there are some people that think if you keep it in the ground, you can just bring it up as rapidly as you may need it.

I want to be very supportive of that. I put that amendment into the energy bill to be supportive of this project because I think it could bear real fruit for the State of West Virginia.

The concentration of these job losses has created a great depression in six counties.

In a regional effort as mentioned by Senator Manchin, the Governors of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio signed a regional cooperation agreement.

Without West Virginia and the efforts that we have made over the last century, I assure you, we would not be sitting in the freest country on earth.

If you want to know how we feel in West Virginia, we feel like a returning Vietnam veteran.

We have got to start thinking in terms of a regional energy hub, a mid-Atlantic energy region.

Coal and natural gas are going to continue to be a critical part of our energy mix in our economy for decades to come.