Mark Kelly

It has to be about actually reforming, what it is that we're doing, and if we're not doing it the right way, stand up and say we made a mistake and we're going to change it.

Well-intentioned or not, we end up in a situation where we continue to throw good money after bad because we can't stand and tell people, you know what, it was a bad policy.

Every penny we're talking about comes out of the American taxpayers' pocket, and not only do they deserve a positive return on that, they should expect that from us.

Just tell me, without the government subsidies, who would venture into this wonderland, and I mean wonderland, wondering if they could possibly work if it was their own money?

There's nobody in the private sector that would continue to squander the capital that we're squandering right now on a reelection agenda and not on an energy policy that makes sense for America.

There's hardworking Americans whose money has been invested and I keep hearing this, there's an element of risk.

I mean, we wouldn't be spending petro dollars in countries whose ultimate goal is to annihilate us and we're funding that process.

If we were to do it domestically, if we had a really aggressive domestic energy policy, where we actually use our own resources...

I think sometimes in the world the shape of your eye or the color of your skin makes you think you're different, absolutely not true. We're all the same.

It really would be nice if we could quit worrying about reelections and start worrying about getting things fixed.

It makes absolutely no sense to those people. I am talking about hard-working, taxpaying American public that actually needs transportation to get back and forth to work.

It is absolutely insane that we continue down this path.

It makes absolutely no sense. I can stock a Chevy Cruze, which is about a $17,500 car and turns every 30 to 40 days out of inventory, or I can have a Volt, which never turns and creates nothing for me on the lot except interest cost.

The cost of building these vehicles, by the way, is going to be so burdensome that private transportation as we know it is no longer going to be viable.

If it has such a great value and is such a significant part of our transportation strategy as we go forward, it should pretty much sell itself.

This is really, when you talk about overregulation and a government that wields its weight way too much, that is exactly what is happening in private transportation.

CAFE standards really don't drive the market; the price of gasoline does.

I am not saying they weren't good intentions to start with but when you look at what has happened...

It is totally bizarre to me that the people we expect to do the most lifting are the people that we put the most burden on.

The only thing we know for sure is they are not going to rise before the next election.

The fact that we send out a stimulus check is not going to stimulate the economy.

You can only borrow if somebody is saving. There has to be a lender on the other side of that transaction.

I would be the last one in the world to say that that's not what we want because yeah, the truth of this is these people that are doing this mining, they live in the same community.

I just wonder, can the EPA actually do this in a timely fashion and in a way that will allow these companies to stay in business?

Their businesses are at risk and the people they employ are at risk all the time.