The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through work... . Energy is fundamentally an environmental improver and if we classify it that way it makes sense out of a lot of these controversies... . It's our obligation and our right to make [our environment] as good for human beings as possible. With that view, it's very easy for people to understand precisely the reason it's good to alter it - because it doesn't naturally come the way we need it to be.

[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.

One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and I think my ideas will help it make a better case for freedom.

Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.