Political Quotes

“I am anxious the Chamber give it very serious consideration because our situation in the United States of America and, indeed, in the context of the global demand for energy, is becoming more serious. Our citizens are laboring under higher prices--be it for home heating oil, gasoline, natural gas--and we must look at the full potential of America to help resolve this situation. So in that sense we could, hopefully, reduce some of our dependence on the need to import various forms of energy from abroad. It is my firm belief the United States must take a balanced approach toward its energy policy. Not only must we increase conservation--I support that--and efficiency efforts--I strongly support that--use more alternative and renewable fuels--I support that, to the extent we can; there is quite a deliberation going on as to the ability of certain States, including mine, which does not have a lot of natural wind power during much of the year, to try to bring in wind power but, nevertheless, I encourage clean coal technology.”