So I thought to myself on many occasions what we should be doing as a Nation, from a public policy, security, energy, and so forth, is that we should take advantage of all of the natural resources that we have.

It seems to me that today over 60 percent of our oil is coming from overseas, and about 60 percent of that is coming from the OPEC nations.

I wish the President, when he talks about the issue of becoming oil independent, should talk about the fact that not only are we going to use less, but we are going to go after those areas where we can responsively find oil.

You are talking about natural gas. We encouraged our electricity to go to natural gas. Our gas prices went up to the top.

The other thing that I want to comment on is the issue of--in your testimony, you talked about a major reason why low carbon renewable resources and energy efficiency are not used more extensively, that the cost of greenhouse gas emission…

What we need to look at is nuclear; we need to look at coal.

the crucial factor that will determine whether we have an effective climate policy is the extent to which that policy will encourage the development and deployment of needed technology.

Tackling the climate change problem is not something we can do alone.

Our security is in deep jeopardy today, and we had better wake up.

if we shut down everything we do, and China and India and Brazil and the other countries that have growing economies do not participate, the impact we are going to have is going to be very little.

I think one of the reasons why we voted, many years ago, against the Kyoto Agreement was that we were saying, you know, why should we do it when the rest of the folks out there are not going to participate in this?