"The cost of making the grid cleaner--and they are pushing for a uniform grid which would basically replace the existing grid--could run into the trillions of dollars, and that is eventually going to b..."
"If you are concerned about inflation, then you also have to be concerned about this administration's energy policy."
"Does it make sense to continue to deprive people of energy justice, if you want to use the word 'justice,' in pursuit of renewables?"
"Moving to 100 percent renewables, I think we need to look at this in the context of national security."
"If the United States achieved its net-zero goal, it will not stop climate change, particularly because China is not going to participate."
"The national renewable energy laboratory estimated that if the U.S. were to attempt to derive 90 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, it would have to roughly double its high-voltage tra..."
"We are going to need to expedite permitting. We are going to have to evaluate some of the regulatory impediments to getting this done."
"The only way that the Federal Government, the Biden administration and my Democrat colleagues will be able to achieve this dream of a Green New Deal is to be very aggressive in the use of eminent doma..."
"these transmission lines and renewable would be competitive, that cost would come down, that--Mr. Clark, that would only be--that statement can only be made in the context of the massive amount of Fed..."
"As I point out to people, businesses don't pay regulatory costs. They don't pay taxes. Consumers do."
"If the--is it possible that the permit holder could be a private company?"
"Well, that is very disturbing to me."