Political Quotes

“We're going to come to this floor saying, Oh, we've got to do something because energy heating costs are high; oh, we need to do something because people are losing their jobs. I will tell you how we can get jobs back into the economy. Let's use American-made emergency. Let's open up the coal fields. Let's get mine workers the jobs. Let's build a coal-to-liquid refinery. Good building trade jobs. Let's have high-paying jobs operating those refineries. Let's build pipelines to get this fuel to the Amtrak station to put in the diesel engines, and let's help our budget airlines not go bankrupt because of the high cost of fuel. Not just our budget airlines. Here is one on Continental: Continental joins cut-back frenzy. Soaring fuel prices. Why do we have a job problem in this country? Because we have an energy problem. Until we come to this floor to debate on bringing more supply to the American public, our economy is always going to be struggling. We're the only country that looks at energy resources not as an economic advantage but as an environmental disaster.”