Political Quotes

“I asked the question recently on why the question mark on relicensing hydro. Someone said, remember, these hydro plants, where water runs through a pipe coming out of a dam and turns a turbine, there is no environmental downside, these dams were built without adequate environmental impact statements, and we might want to have to tear them down. That is where we are coming from on this whole issue. That is at a time when we are looking at shortages. There are some very new interesting pebble bed nuclear plants that are built in small units that can be built right alongside of existing plants that have very little fuel waste and solve a lot of problems. They are being built all over the world. Our whole energy issue, if we want to become more self-sufficient and not dependent, the thing we must not forget, the Far East countries that are providing so much of our oil today, and that is just one of our energy sources, they could double the prices again tomorrow by just restricting how much they will give us. They set the price. They have the ability, because of the amount we are buying from them, they can set the price. If we can lower that, that is why some of us are even supporting ANWR drilling, because we need to do anything we can do to take away that control that these countries that are unfriendly to us have over us, because they could cause us to have $40 oil in the next month.”