Rae Oliver Davis: “The property tax base that pays for the schools. In my home county, which has got a growing and thriving manufacturing…”

“The property tax base that pays for the schools. In my home county, which has got a growing and thriving manufacturing industry, that payback is 7-1. One of the reasons we have some of the top schools in the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the fact that we have a tremendously powerful economic engine that ironically is directly affected by energy prices and access. One of the issues in this so-called bill, which was really a tax increase. Calling it energy independence is not only disingenuous, and maybe that points back to the discussion which took place earlier this evening in the House, but it really misrepresents the entire reality of what is happening. Barack Obama from Illinois, someone that would not be considered a strong conservative by the standards of human events, but is a very committed Senator, and Jim Bunning, who is the junior Senator from Kentucky, cosponsored a bipartisan bill for energy independence that focused on an alternative source which is one we really have; instead of building lots of windmills and solar generators in the colder areas, was to use the resource that we have. And coal is environmentally friendly, it is a proven technology, and he was attacked from the left from environmental groups that strongly supported this bill that hurts jobs for being bad on environmental issues because he would support this very thing that he sees the facts on that would create a second industrial revolution in this country.”