"The surveys I saw, I was involved in working on this legislation, showed that it would generate 84,000 net new jobs in California."
"Nowhere in that resolution do they endorse in any way any type of a cap-and-trade bill."
"The bill authorizes an international offsets program that allows our industries covered under the cap, including the manufacturing and refinery and other energy intensive industries, to indirectly pay..."
"We have an energy proposal, a policy, and it is called all of the above. We want green jobs. We want wind. We want geothermal. We want solar energy. But we also want oil and gas."
"consumers would pay almost $54 billion more annually for gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other petroleum products."
"As to the fact that it does not cost anything, well somebody is going to be paying up to $100 billion a year."
"Do you really think, in this Washington environment, that these things are going to rebated back? I think probably not."
"If we enact cap-and-trade legislation, fuel prices will rise, and more jobs in the trucking sector will be lost."
"Supporters of cap-and-trade say it is all worth it because their policy would help break our dependence on foreign oil."
"We want to expand all domestic production, all forms of energy."
"this would translate into an increase of 20 cents per gallon of gasoline for American consumers."