"In reality, the Clean Air Act calls for that 250 ton standard and they have unilaterally on their own changed the law."
"It was not the members of Congress who made that decision, 250 tons was the law that they wrote."
"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 ..."
"If you think coal is ugly, wait until you see poverty."
"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 ..."
"my people back home tell me that in the cold winter, the program runs out of money about mid February, and people are cold."
"I would submit that what the EPA is now trying to do to these gentlemen trying to produce jobs is just as ridiculous"
"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."
"But if we put such huge pressures on American industries that they take their jobs to these other parts of the world, wouldn't you agree with me that intuitively, we are actually making the problem wo..."
"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 industr..."
"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."