"The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent upon American resourcefulness. Whether that is in the Everglades, or whether that is in the eastern Gulf [of Mexico] region or whether that's in North Dakota, we need to go where the energy is...
“The radical environmentalists put up one road block after another to prevent accessing American energy. We also have oil in the Eastern Gulf region.” - Michele Bachmann (The Associated Press)
“Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's life cycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.” - Michele Bachmann
"Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." - Michele Bachmann