"I also do not accept the assumption that local regulators cannot be trusted because they have political pressures that would discourage enforcement but Federal regulators have only pure motives and no political agenda."
"I am second guessing whether Congress in 2005--I was not in Congress in 2005, none of us on this panel were--was considering crude oil a diesel fuel or as broad as petroleum distillates as a diesel fu..."
"If a State doesn't abide by the guidelines, will they lose primacy in this?"
"As Representative Lankford correctly pointed out, it was interesting because the reports of no health impact would always come out on a Friday afternoon at about 4 p.m."
"My concern is on the expanded definition of diesel. It is very clear that diesel fuel is included in the 2005 but if I drove a diesel truck, which I don't, and then poured kerosene into it, I would no..."
"Why redefining now, why BLM putting in the new regulatory environment now before EPA has finished its study?"
"If we are going to have all of the above, let's do all of the above."
"This is not about tax dollars; this is about a political process to say we want to try to wipe out traditional energies."
"So I am astounded by the fact that if we were to really become energy independent, to really go after the energy that we have, to produce that and to use it ourselves, the job creation, the tax revenu..."
"It is as if the train is moving and they ran and jumped in the engineer's position and said, hey, look, I'm at the front of the train."
"The President and the Administration talk often about production and how production has increased. Can anyone identify an element that this Administration has done to increase production?"