David Weldon: “I want to underscore a very, very important point highlighted by that poster up there. It is very, very clearly spelled…”

“I want to underscore a very, very important point highlighted by that poster up there. It is very, very clearly spelled out in Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance. I would highly recommend every American purchase a copy of this book and read it. If they read this book, Al Gore wants the price of oil to go up. He wants it to go up dramatically. He would like the American consumer to pay substantially more for a gallon of gasoline. I would wager that the current price of $1.50 to $1.80 per gallon is not high enough for Al Gore, because he would like the price to be so high that people would stop driving and that people would start using mass transit. He would like to get them out of their cars. That agenda is very, very clearly spelled out in that book in black and white. I would assert that if any Republican had ever written a book with the outrageous assertions that are put forth in that book, that that Republican candidate for president would be excoriated by the American news media; that every single outrageous statement in that book would be attacked and questioned.”