Edward Markey actually said...

"Oil shale is not a viable resource in the West. It is simply a Wall Street speculation on our public lands."

"Instead of attacking commonsense safeguards for clean water, clean air, protections which benefit people like myself in farming and ranching, make the companies use what they have first."

"We need to be leaders in developing our energy resources."

"what Mr. Holt has proposed, what the Democrats have proposed is that we look at the tax breaks that we give to the oil industry, to the mining industries from--as gifts, as gifts from the Federal taxp..."