"Whatever the solution, we can't lessen our dependence on foreign oil through taxes, mandates, and bureaucracy."
"I believe that it is enough of a problem that we ought to buy some insurance."
"Why would we construct this big contraption of payoffs and allowances and taxes and mandates ... when all we have to do is simply say, let us start with carbon."
"if you really believe that CO2 is causing global warming, why not just tax CO2? I mean, that is the honest way."
"I contend that increasing the gas tax and higher use tax, whatever you call it, is going to result in thousands of jobs."
"it is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. It is going to be the largest tax increase in history."
"There is not any tax increase in Waxman-Markey."
"if the U.S. chooses to enact cap-and-trade unilaterally without China, India and other developing nations... then farmers will be forced to pay for a solution that doesn't work."
"if cap-and-trade achieved its intended effect, that is, to prevent the global climate catastrophe, then farmers would be the first to sign up to help."
"it's all pain for no climate gain."
"farm income could drop by $8 billion under cap-and-trade--and offsets will make up less than 10 percent of this lost income."