Santorum Chided Gingrich For Supporting Cap And Trade And Filming In Ad With Nancy Pelosi On The Subject. “‘Speaker Gingrich has supported cap and trade for more than a dozen years. Now, he wants business incentives to go along with cap and trade, but he supported cap and trade, and sat on the couch with Nancy Pelosi and said that global warming had to be addressed by Congress,’ Santorum said. ‘Who is he or who’s Governor Romney to be able to go after President Obama?’”
Santorum Would Repeal All Obama Regulations, Noting The Federal Government “Kills Jobs.”
“Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum wants to repeal all regulations put in place by Obama.”
Quote: “The federal government kills jobs. We don’t need more programs and bureaucrats telling business how to operate.”
(Tom Raum, “GOP Rivals Focus On Flat Taxes,” The Associated Press, 10/30/11)
Wants to Cut All Subsidies
Quote: “I want to cut every subsidy. Let the marketplace work. Let — and that includes — and that includes for oil and gas.”
(Republican Presidential Candidates Deliver Remarks At Iowa Faith & Freedom Dinner, Transcript, 10/22/11)
Supports Utilization of Coal
Quote: “I believe in a resource-based economy. The EPA has not issued a permit for coal In years. We have more coal than any other country and now we’re importing it.”
(Rob Novit, Aiken Standard, “Santorum Expects To Be Frontrunner For GOP Nod,” Aiken Standard, 09/22/11)
Calls Climate Change A ‘Beautifully Concocted Scheme’ By The Left.”
(William S. Becker: Playing Chicken On Climate Change,” Political Machine, 09/15/11)
Santorum: “‘I’ve Never Supported Even The Hoax Of Global Warming.’” (Emily Schultheis, “Santorum: I Never Believed Global Warming ‘Hoax’,” Politico, 2/7/12)
Santorum Called The Science Of Man-Made Global Warming And The Remedy “Bogus.” “Romney and Gingrich, Santorum said, ‘bought into the science of man-made global warming, and they bought into the remedy, both of which are bogus.’” (Emily Schultheis, “Santorum: I Never Believed Global Warming ‘Hoax’,” Politico, 2/7/12)
Santorum Said Trying To Effect Climate Change By Changing Man’s Minor Contribution On One Pollutant Is “Absurd On Its Face.” ““I for one understood just from science, there are 100 factors that influence the climate, to suggest one minor factor of which man’s contribution is a minor factor … is the determining ingredient in the sauce that affects the entire global warming and cooling is just absurd on its face.’” (Shushannah Walshe, “Rick Santorum To President Obama, ‘We’re Not That Stupid,’” ABC’s The Note, 2/6/12)
Calls for Creating Jobs Via the Energy Sector
Quote: “‘We need to get the economy growing. That doesn’t mean taking more money out of it. That means making — creating — energy jobs and creating manufacturing jobs. My plan will do that.’”
(Richard Dunham, Blog, Texas On The Potomac, 08/12/11)
