These clean air regulations help us save billions of dollars on public health costs while providing a multitude of opportunities for good paying American jobs.

the regulation of mobile sources as a win-win that produces oil independence for our Nation, a cleaner, healthier environment for ourselves and our children, and an increased number of jobs in the auto sector.

In the end, the approach of using market forces, some of us were skeptical as to whether that would actually work, turned out it worked pretty well.

Put another way, Clean Air Act benefits outweigh the costs by a margin of 30 to 1.

If we choose wrong here, the implications are very, very serious.

I think Government has many roles to play. I think one of the most important roles we have to play is to try to provide what I call a nurturing environment for job creation, job preservation.

The question is do consumers want to pay for the value that they get from particularly clean air? I think we should leave that to them to decide.

To me, that is going to cost hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs.

I think everybody is really on the same page.

Do you believe this facility will meet recent EPA regulations of air toxics and SOx and NOx?

We end up having to reduce our emissions in order to try to be in compliance with Federal environmental guidelines.

Investments made, in some cases in the Midwest, will actually benefit those of use who live in the rest of our country.

If this led to having Congress, once again, take up comprehensive climate change legislation, we think that would be a wonderful thing.

The benefits to human health and welfare flowing from the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act are substantial and they have positive economic effects.

I see demand is going up but the price is going down. I know that seems counterintuitive, but that is what is happening.

Any delay would put a burden on this.

The role of Government is not to be the lap dog for business, but to try to provide a nurturing environment for job creation.

However, about 70 percent of the oil that we consume in the U.S. comes from other countries, some of which are undemocratic, unstable.

We passed the first update that we have had in CAFE in so many years, a couple of years ago, 35, 36 mile fleet average per gallon.

How foolish can we be here? We have been warned or given that message one more time.

Our country, I am told, accounts for more than 20 percent of global oil consumption.

The BP oil spill is evidence of the environmental and the economic consequence, an impact of our oil dependence.

But one of the problems we ran into in the 1990's was, at a time when we were constrained for a while with revenue growth, we saw the operating budget, the capital budget constrained at a time when we actually needed to invest in our…

If we were to restore earmarks in that limited way with a lot of transparency, the idea of having the legislation before us, actually signed into law, I think would be helpful in an earmarks restored world.

I think that is an approach that we need to move or migrate toward.