Jim Inhofe

Even NASA's Jim Hansen, perhaps the most outspoken of those concerned about CO2, labeled the Waxman-Markey bill a 'counterfeit climate bill.'

Shutting down the entire U.S. coal industry for 100 years only changes the CO2 atmospheric levels by 3 percent.

Let's work together and with the EPA to get the full analysis as well as the CBO score.

We don't have a full economic analysis. This isn't just my view.

The people are entitled to know what it is that we have in this massive bill.

The reason we are is our regulations over here. And if we wanted to be energy independent, all we need to do is get rid of these barriers.

American's combined recoverable natural gas, oil and coal reserves as the largest on earth. We are No. 1.

I am afraid that a good piece of this bill and other bills that we are seeing come out of the Congress are aimed, ostensibly, at increasing America's energy independence while at the same time they have elements that are decreasing our…

I think our concern was that if the Congress does not act in some fashion, does not provide some legislative and regulatory certainty, we are going to continue to have problems.

The problem is not are there other resources out there because, I have said in the last two panels, recently it has been documented that we are No. 1 in terms of our resources, our reserves in coal, gas and oil. It is a matter that 83…

The last power plant, base load power plant we built in Missouri came on line in 1983.

Whatever policy is developed has got to have the support of the consumers.

It does hit the Heartland more, that the costs we are talking about is somewhere between $300 billion and $400 billion a year.

I think that shows why talking about a postage stamp a day or $100 a year may make sense for our country.

Let us keep in mind, too, that the costs that are going to be, now, if we are using the State of Missouri, we have heard your Senator, Kit Bond talk about how much it is going to cost the farmers.

This bill would do nothing to address your concerns since it will result in no temperature changes

We have to have fossil fuels today to fight wars. This is a national security issue.

In a relatively short span, climate change has turned the already poor nation of Bangladesh into a failed state.

However, while the military cannot stop climate change, it will be the institution that will be forced to deal with it.

The effects of climate change are the ambushers on the horizon.

What we see, as we testified earlier, the companies that are in the global commodities business... those are the companies that are going to be in jeopardy because they will have options elsewhere.

I certainly hope that you folks can get into as much detail as you can in terms of the numbers of jobs, manufacturing jobs, Valero jobs, where you think they would go, how that would affect our economy, and do that for the record.

Logically, it could be China. It is my understanding that China is cranking out currently some two coal-fired generating plants a week.

I agree that there will be a significant loss of jobs.

This, cap and trade, this type of arrangement, would cost a lot of jobs.