Sean Casten

There are times when help for demonstration and commercial application makes sense, but the federal government has no business picking the winners and losers of the energy market.

This is not a problem that we can drill our way out of.

Knowing what we know today, we just can't keep doing more of the same and expecting a different outcome.

We absolutely must pursue ways to produce more sustainable and domestically grown solutions to meet our energy needs.

I often find myself trying to imagine a situation where every American woke up every morning and got hit in the head with a hammer.

I'm a firm believer that the only thing that matters in this life is whether your grandchildren can say they're proud of you.

That report, if I'm following it right, you know, included, among other things, predicting 14 to 18 inches of sea-level rise on the Gulf Coast by 2050.

My God, what is our job here? To embarrass our grandchildren? These are serious issues. This is massive.

If I would have told you then, don't worry about it, 2 years from now we are going to have 300 million Americans vaccinated, we are going to have employers creating jobs at a faster rate than the workforce is growing, and we are going to…

If we're pumping CO2 under the ground to release oil, we're increasing CO2 emissions, so we've got to do green hydrogen.

One of the things that I love about this Committee is that you all have the pleasure of testifying before the only Committee in Congress that deals with nonnegotiable laws, you know, mass conservation, energy conservation.

Our problem is not that power prices are too high; it is that they are too low.

The days of coal fired power are over because it is an economic dog.

If for the last 30 years one major political party had been screaming from the rooftop that two plus two equals five, two plus two would still equal four.

Fossil-fuel subsidies continue to be a primary reason for why the timeline of shifting to renewable energy sources faces further delay.

That is important, Madam Chair, because, in a hearing this week, they told us onshore renewable energy production only produced $40 million for the United States.

I think that is really important when we move forward, that we do look at the Tribes like a microcosm of opportunity.

We have shown with U.S. leadership that we can create a cap-and-trade model to monetize the reduction.

Committing to clean energy is converting to clean--to cheap energy.

None of us do. The way that Paris was structured was to have voluntary, non-binding commitments to create a framework for all of us to try to build to something more permanent.

We need to show that we have actions to match our words, and we have failed at that for 40 years.

Bad things happen when the United States doesn't lead.

When it is initially released, it lasts a little over a decade in the atmosphere and then breaks down.

Methane is about 84 times as potent a greenhouse gas chemical as carbon dioxide.

Respectfully, sir, the laws of thermodynamics are not negotiable.