Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. I will say it again. Enacted in 1975, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act provides specific criteria for DOE to follow in order to propose a new appliance efficiency standard. They may only propose a new standard if it results in a significant conservation of energy, is technologically feasible, and is economically justified. The new regulations are not economically justified, they are not necessarily technologically feasible, and there is not a significant conservation of energy. The Biden administration has consistently ignored these requirements by proposing and finalizing standards that violate this statute. The gentleman from New Jersey is younger than I am, but I grew up during the seventies' energy crisis. I was being flattering. I don't know how old Frank is, but we both grew up during the seventies' energy crisis, and we did some things around the house that my dad mandated. They weren't government mandates. When you left the house in the summertime, you turned the thermostat up so the air wouldn't run at whatever temperature you wanted it, 72, 70, whatever, when nobody was home. We combined trips to the store so that you would go by the gas station and by the grocery store and other stops and make one trip versus going in and out. He ingrained in me to cut the lights off, much to the chagrin of my children and what I have tried to teach them.…”