Political Quotes

“I think that many of our colleagues would be interested in seeing what the balance is in our portfolio as to where we are pooling our energy sources. A well-balanced and appropriate portfolio is going to have many different components to it. Just as with trade, we are going to see many different components in that. We are going to have an opportunity to look at how trade affects this. We certainly can see where we are fitting in here with some of our natural gas and our petroleum and petroleum products and what that means to our trade balance. I do think that as we look at this issue, the cost to consumers and the effect on our GDP has to be considered as well as moving forward. The gentlewoman from Virginia mentioned a biodiesel alternative, algae, and we know that for carbon capture, sometimes that is used to help spur the growth of that algae that is then turned into biodiesel.”