Political Quotes

“I would be remiss if I didn't rise during this debate on energy to address the administration's continuing efforts to wear down America's coal industry. As the Senate considers reform of our Nation's energy infrastructure, the importance of coal to America's energy portfolio simply cannot be understated, and unfortunately neither can this administration's deliberate attempts to use Executive power to put the coal industry out of business. This administration has made no secret of its disdain for fossil fuels and has unleashed a series of policies intended to subvert reliable, affordable, traditional energy sources, such as oil and natural gas, in favor of valuable but more expensive and less reliable renewable resources. We have a lot of wind in Wyoming. In fact, the first wind turbines were put in and the rotors blew off until they discovered they couldn't turn them into the wind at 80 miles an hour. But even though we have a lot of wind--I guess Wyoming could be called the Saudi Arabia of wind and solar, coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium--we have found that sometimes the wind doesn't blow, and we have found that sometimes the Sun doesn't shine and sometimes the wind doesn't blow when the Sun isn't shining, and that creates a problem unless you have alternate fuels. Coal is at the center of that regulatory battle. The war on coal is not only an affront to coal producers in my home State of Wyoming but to energy consumers across America.…”