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Joe Linus Barton ist ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Republikanischen Partei und seit 1985 Mitglied des US-Repräsentantenhauses für Texas. Er tritt 2018 nicht zur Wiederwahl an.

✵ 15. September 1949
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“I think it's a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown.”

Joe Barton

Kontext: I'm speaking totally for myself and I'm not speaking for the Republican Party and I'm not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it's a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown.

“As long as I am chairman, [regulating global warming pollution] is off the table indefinitely. I don't want there to be any uncertainty about that.”

Joe Barton

Congressional hearing entitled, "National Energy Policy: Coal" Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality (March 14, 2001) http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.21&filename=71503.wais&directory=/diskc/wais/data/107_house_hearings

“Wouldn't it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up?”

Joe Barton

House of Representative Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Hearing on &quot; Renewable Energy: Complementary Policies for Climate Legislation https://web.archive.org/web/20090325151942/http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090226/transcript_20090226_ee.pdf&quot;, , quoted in <br class="br">Kontext: Wind is God&#x27;s way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it&#x27;s hotter to areas where it&#x27;s cooler. That&#x27;s what wind is. Wouldn&#x27;t it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can&#x27;t transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It&#x27;s just something to think about.

“I cannot imagine any objective finding that CO2 is a pollutant. If that's true, God is a polluter.”

Joe Barton

Congress and global warming, Reprint of article by Greenwire, 2006-08-07 http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/2/134832/8334,

“I apologize. I do not want to live in a country where anytime a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure, that is again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown. So I apologize.”

Joe Barton

[Republicans protecting ‘poor,’ persecuted BP, Ironton Tribune, http://www.irontontribune.com/2010/06/18/republicans-protecting-poor-persecuted-bp/]
[Texas Rep. Joe Barton Apologizes to BP Chief, Kate Galbraith, The Texas Tribune, http://www.texastribune.org/texas-energy/oil-and-natural-gas/texas-rep-joe-barton-apologizes-to-bp-chief/]
in House hearing on Deepwater Horizon oil spill, regarding escrow fund to pay oil spill claims,

“I am just thinking how unfair it is of you to quote their own words. It is a low blow to use what ExxonMobil has actually said against them. I mean, that is kind of a cheap shot, don't you think?”

Joe Barton

Committee on Energy of Commerce Hearing: Gasoline: Supply, Price, and Specifications https://house.resource.org/109/org.c-span.192444-1.pdf, May 10, 2006 <br class="br">to Representative Anna Eshoo, on her citing ExxonMobil officials saying they don&#x27;t want to build any new refineries in North America

“Global warming science is uneven and evolving.”

Joe Barton

Republicans frosty on Gore&#x27;s global warming warnings, CNN, 2007-03-21 http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/21/gore.ap/index.html,

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