Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share my grave concerns about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the existence of which is awaiting a decision by the administration. Last week, 84 of my colleagues--82 Republicans and 2 Democrats-- introduced H.R. 3, a bill that would approve the construction and maintenance of the Keystone XL pipeline. The world's foremost climatologist, Dr. James Hansen--and one of the first scientists to warn of the dangers of burning carbon fuel and a partial recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize--has likened the building and use of the Keystone pipeline to the lighting of a carbon bomb--game over. When you brush aside the studies by TransCanada and other oil companies and you analyze the pure scientific studies, every analysis clearly demonstrates that the Keystone XL pipeline poses major threats at every turn in its extraction, its transportation, its refining, and its consumption--threats to our Earth. The truth of the matter is the U.S. isn't even going to be using those fossil fuels transported by that pipeline; they're going straight to China. In fact, the only proposed feasible method of getting those Canadian tar sands to China or any other country is by building the Keystone XL pipeline to feed into the port in Houston, Texas. I urge my colleagues to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, avoid lighting that carbon bomb in our country, oppose H.R.…”