Political Quotes

“My colleague just said the only way is to reduce demand. Well, that is not the only way. Republicans continue to move on all-of-the-above energy strategies that increase supply. You know what happens when you increase supply? You increase jobs. I brought this down numerous times over the past couple of years. Look what we could do. We could open up the OCS. Thousands and thousands of jobs could be created by oil and gas exploration. Look what we could do. We could take hundreds of years of supply of coal and turn it into liquid fuel. Look what we could do. We could open up the pipelines and bring oil sands from Canada down. We can be independent on transportation fuels. We cannot be, based upon allowing the EPA to price carbon. The only way my colleagues want to get us to driving less is to make gasoline so high that no one can drive. Now, that's okay when you live in major metropolitan areas, but when you live in rural southern Illinois, where you have got to drive long distances to get to school, to get to hospitals, to get to church, every time you raise the price of gasoline, it hurts the poor and the middle class of rural America. So my colleague is just wrong. I reserve the balance of my time.”