Nick Smith said "this chart shows, I think, something that we can be very proud of. The increase in gross domestic product in this country has been plus 147 percent, where U.S. coal consumption has increased 100 percent, but U.S. energy consumption in total has only gone up 42 percent, and the key air emissions have actually gone down 31 percent. Mr. Speaker, the United States is leading the world in terms of pushing the kind of research that is going to reduce CO2 emissions, but whether it is CO2 or whether it is vapor emissions going into those greenhouse gases, or whether it is the kind of new technology where we can develop new energy sources, the United States is moving ahead probably more aggressively than any other country, and we need to do that, but we do not need to sign and agree to the Kyoto protocol, which is not based on complete science and which would be a punishment to the United States." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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this chart shows, I think, something that we can be very proud of. The increase in gross domestic product in this country has been plus 147 percent, where U.S. coal consumption has increased 100 percent, but U.S. energy consumption in total has only gone up 42 percent, and the key air emissions have actually gone down 31 percent. Mr. Speaker, the United States is leading the world in terms of pushing the kind of research that is going to reduce CO2 emissions, but whether it is CO2 or whether it is vapor emissions going into those greenhouse gases, or whether it is the kind of new technology where we can develop new energy sources, the United States is moving ahead probably more aggressively than any other country, and we need to do that, but we do not need to sign and agree to the Kyoto protocol, which is not based on complete science and which would be a punishment to the United States.

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Nick Smith

Republican · Michigan

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing U.S. energy consumption and emissions in relation to the Kyoto Protocol.

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