A Generation Ago [the Democratic Party] Stood

What We Do Know Is That The Planet Is Going From 7 Billion People Today To 9 Billion. More People Want To Live Like Us, Drive American- Size Cars, Live In An American-size Home, And Eat American-size Big Macs. What Does That Mean? It Means That Energy Demand Is Going To Be Going Up.

Remember, The Difference Between The World Frozen Over, In An Ice Ball, And The Warming Period We're In Now Is Just 6 Degrees Centigrade. A Change Of Just 1 Degree Can Have A Huge Effect.

I Think We Have Lost Our Groove As A Country. One Of The Reasons Was The Attack On 9/11. We Got Knocked Off Our Game. From A Country That Always Exported Hope We Went Into The Business Of Exporting Fear.

That's Right-the Striking Thing About Greenhouse Gases Is The Diversity Of Sources That Emit Them. A Herd Of Cattle Belching Can Be Worse Than Highway Full Of Hummers.

The Middle East Would Always Be An Important Trading Partner In Just A Market Sense, Like America Is A Big Market For Us, Asia Is A Big Market, Europe Is A Big Market. You Are Going To Have Hundreds Of Millions Of Consumers There, From Just A Standard Market Point Of View, From A Very Narrow American Point Of View.