On the recordJanuary 31, 2012
Reclaiming my time, and thanking my colleague for his comments--you know, we're talking this whole year of how we're going to get this economy back on its feet, how we're going to put people back to work, how we're going to make our decisions make sense to put people to work and make our economy grow. And I'm concerned, where we already have the NHTSA--or whatever it's called--setting these standards, we had CAFE standards established--gosh, that's 8 years ago--with a plan to study on down the road, looking at the economic consequences and the job consequences, as well as the environmental consequences. And the EPA chose to make a decision based solely on their global warming view of the world and not take into effect the job--in fact, they say in their statement, we don't even know what the job consequences are going to be, and we don't know what the economic consequences are going to be. And we don't know if you can sell a car, $3,200, but we're passing this regulation anyway. That's not the kind of decisions we ought to be making around this place. So I really thank you for raising those economic points, Scott. It helps a lot. The next person I believe was here, Alan Nunnelee was the next one. I yield to my good friend from Mississippi.
