Political Quotes

“What we need for the sake of our economy is we need reliable supplies of all energies, and we need to prevent spikes. The spikes from 2 years ago started us back into a recession. The spikes this winter are going to slow down our economy further. The one energy that is the greatest concern right now is natural gas. Many years ago in the last administration there was a decision made that coal was out and gas was in for electric generation. I personally am not a big fan of gas for electric generation. We used it for peaking power because I believe it has been the main source of home heating, commercial, and the main source for our industry, and it should be the main source for bus fleets and truck fleets in our city areas where we need clean air. The easiest conversion away from petroleum is natural gas for our transportation fleet. In my view, that would be a better use. But what has happened in this country in just a few years, natural gas, not generally used for power generation for making electricity, now the gas being used in this country, 13 percent of the gas is for power generation; 14 percent of the gas fuels all of commercial in this country.”