Statements about Environment
"The 12 hottest years on record have come in the last 15 years."
"We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas."
"In one year, (President Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world … into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1."
"After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas."
Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as "tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in China."
Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as "half a billion to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in Finland."
Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as "$1.2 billion to a solar company that's building a plant in Mexico."
"Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska."
Says President Barack Obama "has an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would raise the price of gasoline by 25 cents a gallon."
Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.
The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but "didn’t know" why it was cited.
Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming."
"In this country … we have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Says Mitt Romney has said different things about whether global warming is caused by humans
Solar and wind energy are "both cheaper than nuclear right now."
Says Texas wildfires are linked to climate change.
"The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy."
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."
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