Political Quotes

“If we would produce the right amount of natural gas, and the price would moderate and be cheaper than oil, it should, all of our hospitals and our schools have dual capacity. They have to have a redundant heating system. So they will have fuel tanks full of fuel oil, and they will have a gas line, and then they, if one system goes down or something, then they have the back-up, because you cannot have a hospital or school without that. Now, what happens is they also use that to advantage economically. In the last couple of winters, they have used a lot of fuel oil because gas has been higher than normal. So now we are adding to our need for oil, which we depend 65 percent on foreign countries, and we have a lack of refining capacity. We passed a bill last week dealing with refining capacity, but natural gas, I say, can be the bridge to the future of renewables and other energy because it is the clean fuel. There is no pollutants. It is one-fourth of the CO<INF>2.</INF> I have bus system in State College, Pennsylvania, that is all natural gaps. Now, that used to be a savings for them. Now it costs them considerably more. They are getting penalized.…”