The United States has a supply of "more than 100 years of natural gas."
A cap-and-trade plan promoted by Barack Obama would hit hardest "those already struggling to make ends meet."
Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to "skyrocket."
Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required "universal building codes."
"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."
"Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans."
"The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so."
On a cap-and-trade plan.
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."
"We import more oil today than ever before."
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
"If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent."
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."
Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."
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