We need to move as fast as we can. The longer we wait to take concerted action, the greater the impacts will be ... the more it will cost to achieve the reduction.
Whatever we do has to be done through the marketplace, ... Only the market can mobilize the resources and expertise to get the job done, but the market needs direction from the government ... The government lays out the goal, and the market figures out the best ways to get there.
There are strong passions on all sides of the issue. The president's decision will be based on the facts.
There was a willingness on all sides to work together to try to narrow the remaining differences. Everyone pledged to use the next couple of days to see if we can pull together agreements and wrap things up this week.
The images will be made broadly available and posted on the Web. Their release was just authorized so I imagine it will take a while.
It will be very complex. Any agreement has to be more flexible than Kyoto but at the same time has to deliver real cuts in emissions.
We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.
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