Pete Domenici: “Let me tell the Senator this: I asked this administration and I asked this Vice President to send to us what their great…”

“Let me tell the Senator this: I asked this administration and I asked this Vice President to send to us what their great energy policy has been during the last 8 years. Every time we say there is none, they say they have got one, they have had one and we turned it down. I would love to see it. I would like to evaluate it and send it out to the energy people and ask them what would it have produced had we given more money to solar and wind than we did. How would that have had an impact on the consumers of America--paying this enormous price for gasoline, this enormous new price for natural gas? Frankly, I say to my friend from Utah, if Americans don't know it-- because we worry so much about Social Security and its future, Medicare and its future, what happens to this surplus, and what happens to the debt--probably the biggest challenge to the American way of life and our standard of living, driving automobiles and finding jobs and factories growing, is that we have no energy policy.”