Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.
First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.
I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.
We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.
Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.