"In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase. The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics."

"We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil."

"Westerners literally sit on mountains of oil and gas, and every state can consider the possibility of nuclear energy."