Joe Barton
Joe Barton
Joe Linus Bartonis a Republican politician, representing Texas's 6th congressional districtin the U.S. House of Representatives since 1985, and a member of the Tea Party Caucus. The district includes Arlington, part of Fort Worth and several rural areas south of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Following the primary defeat of Ralph Hall, Barton became the dean of the Texas Congressional delegation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 September 1949
CountryUnited States of America
We all know who will be the first to complain about natural gas prices this winter. And everybody here knows who will blame high prices on a corporate conspiracy, don't we? But the real conspirators seem to be New England and places like Fall River, Mass.
We cannot stop hurricanes, but we can mitigate some of these adverse impacts on our energy infrastructure and our economy that hurricanes can have. We need to tackle this problem for one simple reason: Our country needs more oil refineries because the people who work for a living need gasoline to get to work.
CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.
I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.
I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
The constant abuse of online activity must stop.
I think we should drill up in Alaska.
Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.
threatened by China's aggressive tactics to lock up energy supplies around the world that are largely dedicated for their own use.
We could be drilling in Alaska right now; we could be drilling off the coasts of several other states, ... It would make a difference today if we were not as restrictive as we've been in the last 20 years about where we drill.
Why in the heck don't we have a policy in effect today, once we found out we don't?
We can be responsible ... or we can throw caution to the wind and basically have the U.S. Treasury spend over $10 (billion) to $12 billion if everybody took advantage of the program.
We use 21 million barrels of oil a day, and only have the refining capacity for 16 million on a good day, ... And after Katrina and Rita, we haven't had many good days.
We need a fresh new approach that will encourage Internet providers to expand and improve broadband networks, spur growth in the technology sector and develop cutting-edge services for consumers,