Statements about Environment
People "can't go fishing anymore because of Obama."
“Mayor White has major stake in Barnett Shale production company.”
Houston is "the third-most toxic city in the United States of America."
The Climatic Research Unit e-mails show that the science behind climate change "has been pretty well debunked."
"President Obama's proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions," but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions.
The "post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim."
"The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap and trade) will be $6,800 per year."
Under the cap-and-trade bill, homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold.
Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to "skyrocket."
"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."
If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."
About 750,000 people die in China each year from auto emissions.
"Not only is there no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant, higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life."
The cap-and-trade bill will mean "2 million jobs lost."
"There's no evidence anywhere that offshore drilling has hurt tourism in any area where it has been allowed."
"The truth is any oil that would be drilled could be sent to any other country in the world, reducing our use of foreign oil not by one single drop."
Gas will reach $4 a gallon under a cap-and-trade plan.
The Obama administration's cap-and-trade plan would create "a $1,761 yearly energy tax."
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