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I apologize. I do not want to live in a country where anytime a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure, that is again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown. So I apologize.

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in House hearing on Deepwater Horizon oil spill, regarding escrow fund to pay oil spill claims

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As long as I am chairman, [regulating global warming pollution] is off the table indefinitely. I don't want there to be any uncertainty about that.

Global warming science is uneven and evolving.

I cannot imagine any objective finding that CO2 is a pollutant. If that's true, God is a polluter.

I think it's a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown.

Wouldn't it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up?

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