Nothing could do more harm to America's national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think cutting our defense capacity not only demonstrably diminishes our national security, but it has a tremendous negative impact in the long run on our economy because we end up having to fight wars and clean up after terrorist disasters.
There's no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.
Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.
Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.
I believe that nuclear needs to be a part of the solution if the U.S. really wants to be aggressive about reducing carbon.
Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.
When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.
Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.