John Kerry: “What is very significant is that you have neutral people--and the National Academy of Sciences does not try to get into…”

“What is very significant is that you have neutral people--and the National Academy of Sciences does not try to get into the politics; it is science, and we ought to respect that--who have said point blank that the claims of the automobile industry are false. Americans deserve something better than having some of the major corporations in America lie to them about choices we face in this country. That is what they have been doing. To hear a Senator come to the floor of the Senate and suggest soccer moms are going to have to get into golf carts and drive down the road in a string of golf carts just defies imagination. It is incredible. Let me point out to the Senator from Arizona--because I only showed part of the distortion of these charts--the Big Three presented a car assessment to the committee. But, again, they used highly selected vehicles when they did it. They excluded some cars in order to provide a skewed picture.”