Dan Becker Quotations | Page 2

I've lost faith in the process. The inordinate number of mistakes that have occurred in this election should make everyone concerned.

At a time when Americans are paying record prices for gas, the Bush administration has sided with its cronies in the auto industry and rejected real solutions.

In fact, when you burn coal, you emit more acid rain pollution, more air pollution, more smog and more global warming pollution which threatens the entire planet.

The question, I believe, is from where did they come? I have no reasonable assurance that they came from St. John's Church.

The president is the one who said we're addicted to oil. This is his most important tool to curb that addiction.

Landlords need to be more accountable for the people in their buildings. It is not OK to have four or five or six or 10 people sleeping in an apartment designed for three, and it's not good for the community.

It boils down to this: They get to make two more gas-guzzlers for every FFV they put out. There's no way Detroit would be producing these cars if they weren't allowed to weaken miles-per-gallon standards in return.

As soon as you implement a strong, fixed target for reducing oil use, stricter fuel standards will inevitably come into play. Incentives alone won't do the trick.

This proposal gives automakers another excuse to not make the cars that people want - ones that use available technology to save consumers money at the gas pump and cut pollution. Making our cars and trucks go farther on a gallon of gas is the biggest single step we can take to save money at the gas pump, cut oil dependence, and curb global warming.

It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to clean up our act.