David Schweikert: “Don't you love that, when we take a few minutes getting organized because sometimes we walk around with so many moving…”

“Don't you love that, when we take a few minutes getting organized because sometimes we walk around with so many moving parts? This is sort of the continuing conversation that we have been doing on a theme for well over a year now, in the last Congress and now into this one. It is a combination of a couple things: One, our office works very hard on actually looking at solutions, but first you have got to understand some of the problems. And I want to say this very nicely--and maybe in the next couple weeks we will come back and do it again, we have already done it a half a dozen times here on the floor--and that is: The miracles of technology are about to do amazing things in environmental protection. So to our brothers and sisters on the left who were sharing their heartfelt concerns over global warming and greenhouse gases, well, what is so disappointing is the lack of optimism in the incredible technology breakthroughs that have happened. Think of this: Outside Houston, they are burning coal, they are burning natural gas. And there is no smokestack. They are capturing every bit of this ACO<INF>2</INF>. There is just a litany of these types of technologies that--sort of the old Malthusian view of the way you save the planet is we live much poorer. Well, that has been wrong now for centuries.…”