"these costs will be passed on to the consumers?"
"the consumers who get hit the hardest are in fact the poor, the working poor, and the elderly?"
"trillions of dollars that will be passed on to the consumers, which will disproportionately hurt the working class, the poor, the middle class, and the elderly."
"there is nothing funny about it."
"we are trying to slow the train wreck down somehow."
"But because of the power plants that are run by coal that we have already seen that are shutting down, et cetera, is the reason that you made those statements and that you think there are going to be ..."
"When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, you know, under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
"But when the President has more flexibility, if we believe his words, and we believe his words from his last campaign, don't you anticipate that he is going to make the costs rise on the use of coal a..."
"Well, it is your safety program, Honorable Member, and it will be a pipeline built by Americans, supervised by Americans and made safe by Americans."
"Well, I am not sure I would go there, especially as an American. I don't want to accuse you of being too Canadian."
"So you would generally agree with me that we probably have greater than 2 percent if only we would use our resources, is that correct?"
"And so would I be correct in believing that by not allowing the United States and Canada to expand our use of our natural resources, we may in fact be creating a greater problem worldwide with polluti..."