"It's important to get that--the stories, right from the ground."
"It's essential that we take very firm and strong action at the Federal level."
"I think we all know that people with second homes, people with yachts, real estate speculators and others can currently go into bankruptcy court."
"Let us assume that is the path we want to reductions on that schedule. What would be the effective price for carbon in order to hit that goal and any schedule in terms of price increases?"
"What is important is you really need to provide more choices for the American consumer."
"I cannot tell you exactly. By the way, the $115 is per ton of CO2, not carbon."
"I guess the question on the minds of many consumers is not Dr. Hansen's approach a more direct approach to ameliorating that cost impact on a consumer?"
"What would be the effective price for carbon in order to hit that goal and any schedule in terms of price increases?"
"For you, Dr. Ekwurzel, Dr. Hansen has proposed that in order to address the price impact on the consumer, you essentially have a rebate, a 100 percent rebate."
"I like the carbon price as the tuning knob because it is a stable one with a linear, while in the case of caps, there is too much volatility."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me thank all of our witnesses for their testimony."