Statements about Energy
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson "chose to side with President Obama" against the Keystone pipeline
"I have always said that I would be for drilling."
At the same time gas prices have increased, "the share of the oil market controlled by speculators has more than doubled over the past 10 years."
Gas prices have doubled because "Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska. He gave millions of tax dollars to Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. And he blocked the Keystone pipeline. So we will all pay more at the pump."
"Mitt Romney’s pledged to protect (oil companies') record profits – and their billions in special tax breaks, too."
Says Barack Obama "promised" gasoline at $2.50 a gallon.
"We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades."
The U.S. has a "record number of oil rigs operating right now – more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world combined."
"Today gasoline hit $6 a gallon in Florida."
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
Solyndra "had robots that whistled Disney songs. I'm not kidding."
"(President Barack Obama gave) half a billion in taxpayer money to help his friends at Solyndra, a business the White House knew was on the path to bankruptcy."
Says it wasn't until he and a Senate colleague were able to "wrangle the actual streaming video" from BP that scientists were able to calculate the oil spill flow.
"A Cornell University research study concludes that ethanol generates a 29 percent energy loss, meaning it takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce a gallon of ethanol."
"Just a little over 60 percent of your electric bill, my electric bill, 60 percent of that is pass-throughs, whether they be for building of nuclear plants or whatever they may be." A planned nuclear plant repair "will only increase that percentage."
On offshore oil drilling.
"Joe Garcia raised utility rates on families."
"It takes as much energy to make a solar panel as it likely generates in its entire life."
"I think it is unacceptable for the Chinese today to be larger in wind power and in solar panels and photovoltaic manufacturing than all of Europe put together -- forget the United States."
House Republicans who complained they didn't have enough time to consider a constitutional ban against oil drilling "shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling."
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