"I would like us to have a carbon-free electricity standard."
"The recommendations of the Nature Conservancy paper, I hope, are something this committee would take seriously."
"To equal the production of one nuclear reactor, you would have to continuously forest an area the size of the Great Smoky Mountains."
"The cost to the rate payer for nuclear, according to the National Academy, is 6 cents to 13 cents over the lifetime per kilowatt hour and 4 cents to 10 cents for wind over its lifetime."
"I think nuclear is going to be part of the mix."
"The subsidies for wind are about 10 times that for nuclear."
"They warned that over the next 20 years new energy production, especially biofuels, will consume a land mass larger than the State of Nebraska."
"If we make 20 percent of our electricity from wind turbines, that would be 1.4 million birds per year."
"I accept the National Academy's conclusions that climate change is real and that humans have probably caused most of it recently."
"If it is like Waxman-Markey, which EPA says it mostly is, then according to President Obama's budget director, it is the largest corporate welfare program in history."
"At a time of 10 percent unemployment, utility bills going up, manufacturing jobs going overseas..."