Ed Whitfield

You are saying legally enforceable rights that parents could take the companies to court.

I worry about folks on fixed incomes in my district having to heat to a minimal level, one room in their house during the wintertime.

When it takes the Texas Railroad Commission days to issue a permit and it takes the various Federal agencies years, that is a problem, and it is not that Texas is too fast. It is that the Federal Government drags its feet.

It is past time for this committee to examine these issues with the seriousness they deserve.

So we need the SPR and we need the administration to have the authority to be able to crack down on the speculation, make sure there is more transparency and no game-playing.

I just have a philosophical difference, I guess, with you also because we have this $16 trillion debt.

I have never, ever seen an administration go after one industry the way this administration is going after the coal industry.

I think just about everyone agrees that America's air quality is among the best in the world.

I am disturbed that I think EPA misled the American people on Utility MACT because all they ever talked about...

Do you believe that it makes any sense to say to our young men and women that we export into the Middle East to protect this supply of oil that we are not going to use the weapon we have here in the United States--the Strategic Petroleum…

I don't think they are giving adequate consideration to the consequences of that.

it looks like EPA is setting the energy policy for America.

this administration is totally moving to... provide all sorts of grants and loan guarantees to technologies, many of which have not proven to be able to deliver.

The Republicans believe you don't need the rulemakings at the CFTC. Are they right or wrong, Mr. Secretary?

There is no question that the Obama administration is totally focused on transforming the energy delivery system in America.

I urge you to call a time-out, Mr. Secretary, to make sure that we get this right.

The reasons given for that are, number one, to make the air quality even cleaner; and number two, Ms. Jackson and others frequently talk about regulations create more jobs.

And all of the analysis, all of the data indicates that there is insignificant benefit from mercury reduction.

The rule of thumb is every $10 increase in the price of oil is a quarter or 25 cent increase in the price of gasoline.

If we continue to follow his policies, gas prices are not going to go down, they are going to go up.

The President and his administration have decided to address energy costs by spending billions of taxpayer dollars to develop electric cars.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not a bailout fund for President Obama's failed policies.

The increase in production is due to production on private and State lands.

As Mr. Whitfield said earlier--Chairman Whitfield said earlier, we need to provide immediate assistance to help consumers.

I do not intend today to place all of the blame on the President, but I am going to give him some blame.