"I cannot guarantee you that it will lower temperatures at all because it depends on other countries."
"I want to go back to the--my thesis that I hope I articulated it reasonably well about we do not have an overarching plan or analysis for achieving CO2."
"If we spend $4 trillion a year every year until 2050 to achieve carbon neutrality in the United States, and President Putin and President Xi and Prime Minister Modi say, mmm, I do not think so."
"Have you ever known President Xi to lie?"
"Do you really believe that?"
"Do you trust--look me in the eye--do you trust Vladimir Putin"
"This appears to be at odds with the congressional intent of the tax credit and the Administration's stated goals."
"I gather, Congressman, that you support trying to make the world carbon neutral by 2050."
"We don't lower world temperatures a scintilla of a degree if you look at the boreal forest fires, so what'd we do?"
"We spend all this money. Okay, it's going to cost America about $1 trillion a year to make us carbon neutral by 2050."
"Your goal is not to make it better. Your point is, as I understand it, that the world will end if we don't achieve the carbon neutrality."
"If we do that, is the world going to be okay? No."