It is the worst possible bill for Texas and for America. It would tax the oil and gas industry to pay for the new forms of energy. . . It is going to raise the cost of gasoline. . . the cost of our utilities and it is not going to keep jobs in America. . . Texas alone would lose 600000 jobs from oil and gas companies moving their jobs overseas because it will be too expensive to do business in America.
--U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison