Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. I rise in opposition to the dirty air act, which overturns the scientific finding that pollution is harming our people and our planet. But as long as Republicans are making an ideological decision to overturn scientific reality, I wonder if the Republicans could offer an amendment overturning inconvenient geological reality as well. Let's tell the United States Geological Survey that Congress doesn't believe that the United States only has 2 percent of the world's oil as well. What the Republican majority is bringing to the House floor today is almost as absurd. Republicans want our only weapon against OPEC to be a bumper sticker slogan, ``Drill, Baby, Drill.'' Well, I have news for my Republican friends. We are drilling, baby. U.S. oil production is at its highest level in nearly a decade. Domestic natural gas production is at an all-time high. But we will never be able to drill our way out of this problem. What Republicans fail to acknowledge is that a clean energy revolution is already underway. Take a look at the new electrical generating capacity we've been installing in the United States in the last 4 years--the last 4 years. Eighty percent of all new electrical- generating capacity has been natural gas, 33,000 new megawatts; and wind, 28,000 new megawatts. {time} 1500 This is the last 4 years, ladies and gentlemen. Coal is down to 10,000, but rising very quickly. Solar at nearly 2,000 megawatts; biomass at nearly 1,000 megawatts.…”