it has been a long day. We have heard about everything that can be heard from a lot of different people, and I have come to some conclusions that there are some things that are incontrovertible after hearing both sides of the debate all…
Jim Inhofe
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James Mountain Inhofe is a former United States Senator from Oklahoma, serving from 1994 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Inhofe is known for his strong conservative views, particularly on issues related to national defense and environmental policy. He gained notoriety for his skepticism regarding climate change, famously calling it a hoax. Throughout his tenure, he held significant positions, including Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
This is about a colorless, tasteless, necessary part of the atmosphere called carbon dioxide.
Burning the Constitution of the United States should not be a part of the national energy policy.
The President comes out with his initiative which I believe is a national energy tax. To me, this is regulation without representation.
Let me just observe that in the last Congress when the Republicans were a minority, Senator Boxer had S. 2963, a bill to address discharge limits from large and small vessels reported through committee on a party line vote with no hearing.
We can have a debate, my friends across the aisle disagree with me vehemently about this, about what CO2, carbon dioxide, is doing to the atmosphere.
The climate has always changed. There is a reason why the island of Greenland is named Greenland because at one point, it was green.
These regulations are the product of backroom sue and settle tactics with radical environmental lobbying organizations.





