So to be putting our money on algae at this point, although it certainly should be researched, would be a foolish bet for the next 15 or 20 years.

If we keep raising the cost of electricity, don't you think that will cause some concern or some diminution in the advantages of going to an electric car?

Sleepless nights for Saudi sheiks. In my part of the world, you give Saudi sheiks sleepless nights by looking at turning coal into gas.

What happens when people cannot afford to heat their homes?

burdensome and unreasonable regulations that are hurting the American economy and hurting American jobs.

Simply put, coal powers America.

If you think coal is ugly, wait until you see poverty.

It was not the members of Congress who made that decision, 250 tons was the law that they wrote.

Am I interpreting you correctly that while a mining company might have had the right to extract coal, there is nothing in that original permit that allows somebody to put carbon back into the ground?

In reality, the Clean Air Act calls for that 250 ton standard and they have unilaterally on their own changed the law.

What sometimes is forgotten is that if we make our energy costs so high by unreasonable regulations, that a company has to send their jobs--either they close down and somebody else in another country starts producing that product, or they…

I will tell you that I am very concerned.

my people back home tell me that in the cold winter, the program runs out of money about mid February, and people are cold.

when we have new regulations, no matter how well intentioned and how much they might save somebody money, when you add $1,000 more to the cost of a car by 2016 and a total by $3,000 more by 2025, you are basically saying that a lot of…

Today I rise to offer an amendment that would prohibit the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development from issuing any new livable or sustainable community grants. While the Appropriations Committee…

Yes, you could make my son's life a whole lot better if you tore down every tree in the United States of America and the world, but that obviously is ridiculous.

there is a bumper sticker out there that says if you think coal is ugly, wait until you see poverty.

I would submit that what the EPA is now trying to do to these gentlemen trying to produce jobs is just as ridiculous

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act…

these costs will be passed on to the consumers?

we are trying to slow the train wreck down somehow.

the consumers who get hit the hardest are in fact the poor, the working poor, and the elderly?

Would you also agree with me that when the President said, 'because I am capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit…

there is nothing funny about it.

My experience also coming from coal country is is that coal is under assault and that it is driving up electric prices just as Candidate Obama had promised.