Joe Barton: “There is a train of thought that this would be a surrogate system to put the United States at a competitive disadvantage…”

“There is a train of thought that this would be a surrogate system to put the United States at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Now, do not hold me specifically to these numbers, because I do not have some of my briefing books before me as we engage in this special order, but my recollection is that of all the nations in the world that are involved in the Kyoto agreement, and it is around 160 to 170, there would be only 13 that would have to make any significant reductions in their emissions, and of that, the United States would be a huge majority. So nations like Iceland would have to make some reduction, Japan, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, there were a total of 13 out of 162, but over half the reduction would come from the United States economy.”