Political Quotes

“I think it is pretty outstanding when we have been increasing the efficiency of manufacturing and processing by more than a percent a year. The gentleman talked about 30 percent. I was reading something today that was 40 percent, I do not know what the time span was, but we have made tremendous progress in the efficient use of energy. Now, it is my belief that the reason we are in an energy crunch today is number one, we did not have an energy policy and we had very cheap oil and very cheap gas for an extended period of time that kind of shifted us in the wrong direction. But, there was a real move in this country away from coal, away from nuclear, and the Kyoto protocol concept had us trying to phase out fossil fuels with a false assumption. Now, we are all for renewables, but when we look at the charts, and I have read all the charts recently of energy usage in this country and growth, and when they are projecting into 2010 and 2020, renewables are still a very narrow line.”