Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to not talk about a transportation bill. I am on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, but it has turned into an energy package, and I just want to expose the fallacy of this so-called green infrastructure package. Let's just look at one part of it. Let's look at all-electric vehicles. Let's assume that we could go to all-electric vehicles in the U.S. overnight. What would that mean? We hear a lot of talk about electric vehicles, and it sounds good, but what would it actually do for greenhouse gases? The answer is not nearly as much as my colleagues across the aisle would like for you to believe. First, the people who write this legislation must be the same ones who think that food comes from the grocery store and electricity comes from the wall outlet. Just like the food in the grocery store, energy has a supply chain, and less than 10 percent of it is coming from wind and solar. In fact, between 60 and 70 percent of electricity comes from coal and natural gas. And guess what? It is going to keep coming from coal and natural gas unless we build nuclear power plants, and I haven't seen proposals from anyone on the left to be building any nuclear power plants. I have got some science and engineering to share with my friends about their wind and solar daydream without coal, natural gas, or nuclear power: It won't work. I realize the truth about this might hurt people's feelings, but science is science.…”