John Doolittle: “I ran across an interesting quote here. This is by our President, very recently as a matter of fact, March 7, speaking…”

“I ran across an interesting quote here. This is by our President, very recently as a matter of fact, March 7, speaking at the White House. "Americans should not want them," referring to oil prices, "to drop to $12 or $10 a barrel again, because that takes our mind off our business, which should be alternative fuels, energy conservation, reducing the impact of all this on global warming." We talked about alternative fuels. It would be great if we could increase the size of this. But despite heavy Federal subsidies, we have not made much progress. Let me now observe that in his book I referred to, Earth in the Balance, the Vice President referred back to that book just about a year ago and is quoted in Time magazine on pages 65 through 67, April 26, 1999. If there were ever a doubt that maybe his views have changed somewhat in light of events that have transpired, that maybe he has reconsidered certain outlandish statements made in the book, well, it is apparent that that is not the case, because this is what he said: "There's not a statement in that book that I don't endorse. The evidence has firmed up the positions I sketched there." I think there is some pretty interesting material in that book.…”