Jerry Taylor Quotations

What I am asking, I guess, is do you intend to work on it?

There are things teachers implement that aren't reflected in the improvement plans or in scores, ... There are things they are doing right every day.

One side believes prices are established by supply and demand, ... The other believes prices are the result of conspiracy, whim or production costs.

If they want a poster boy for the Energy Hog, they can put President Bush's mug up there for jetting around the country for useless photo ops to try to bring his poll numbers back up,

If they were promising economically, you wouldn't need government help. The fact is that they haven't been able to generate much electricity, and so the people most inclined to make money out of this are probably going to put their money elsewhere.

I feel like that is up to the fiscal court,

If those technologies have economic merit, no subsidy is necessary. If they don't, no subsidy will provide it. Those subsidies have failed to produce economic energy in the past, and there is little reason to expect that they will do so in the future.

If those technologies have economic merit, no subsidy is necessary.

Unless this software is removed I will file a complaint with the FBI.

We are going to put the fields in the best condition we can,

It could be one of the dumbest ideas of the year. I haven't looked at all of the ideas yet, but it's got to be right up there.

It had the effect that any economist would have told you. To believe the laws of economic gravity have changed over time is wrong.

It isn't where natural gas prices will be this winter or even next winter, but where the prices will be over the lifetime of the project.

Renewable power mandates merely accentuate the inefficiency and cost premiums attached to so-called renewable power sources. If renewable power saved consumers money, created jobs, or carried any of the other economic benefits so frequently claimed by environmental activists, then government would not have to pass a law to force power companies to purchase it or consumers to buy it.

Price gouging -- like spinach -- may be unappealing at first bite but it's good for everyone in the long run,

We've learned to be very patient. We really don't know anything.

Timing is essential in career moves and often cultural climate can impact companies based in rural areas. For instance, someone who has grown up in Manhattan who loves the theater, opera, and New York Yankees might have a hard time picturing themselves in a small city atmosphere.

To the casual observer, one of the most striking things about President Bush's State of the Union address was his wholesale adaptation of the Democratic Party's rhetoric regarding energy. Veterans on all sides of the energy debate in Washington cannot fail to detect a strong whiff of political cynicism in the air.

What's high on the radar for environmental organizations has virtually nothing to do with what people think. If you dig deeper, and ask what environmental problems are you concerned about, water from the tap and the local dump tend to outpace global warming. People, when they think about environmental quality, think about it in their own town.

The president is only proposing a 22 percent increase and I rather suspect that Congress will be inclined to provide that assistance. But since the increase is modest, it's probably not going to be enough.

We seem to have economic amnesia. Decisions about what sort of technologies to invest in, what fuels to produce and in what quantity are best made by consumers and business, and not by politicians.

You guys are doing some things, a lot of things right,

As far as the new subsidies for coal, wind, solar, nuclear and ethanol are concerned, if those technologies have economic merit, no subsidy is necessary. If they don't, then no subsidy will provide it.

This bill will allow politicians to tell voters they're, quote, doing something about high energy prices. And the bill also allows politicians to hand out subsidies and preferences and tax dollars to well-organized interest groups -- and that's what Congress likes to do best.

A supply disruption in the Middle East would increase the price of crude everywhere in the world no matter where or how it is produced.

It's a fairly easy, cheap way of posturing before the crowd.

It's not really a compensation for higher gas prices. It's simply a please-vote-for-me-in-November payment.

It's not the government's job to design automobiles. Also, there's a great deal of unrealistic expectation about what fuel-efficient cars can do. If the government really wants to secure reduction in oil consumption for cars, it should just leave gas prices alone. With enough time, consumers will reduce their consumption in response to higher costs.

It's overwhelming because there are so many things to do.

It's possible, but that kind of reduction doesn't protect us from supply disruption. If we don't import oil from Iran, if they removed themselves from the market, it would increase crude prices regardless of where we're getting our oil.

The auto fleet turns over slowly, usually every 10 to 12 years. You're not going to see SUVs replaced by hybrids any time soon.

It turned out very well and I'm very happy with the book and all the work she put into it.

It takes a real big price increase to get a little bit of reduced consumption.

It will cost billions to fix it, but unfortunately for environmentalists, it's not a very sexy problem.

This is less about Americans' addiction to oil than to Republican politicians' addiction to polls. The rhetoric is bracing but the proposals are mercifully trivial.

This is just a bunch of freaks out there that don't have anything better to do.

I heard Mr. Rees exactly what he said. I think that is neither here nor there right now. The same judge that accepted Commissioner Rees order can also accept ours. My side has never been heard. Your all's side was heard, not mine,

It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue is a reflection of the greater amount of wealth we've created.

... you know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them...

I don't think consumers benefit from corporate welfare, and that's all that these proposals add up to. With energy prices as high as they are, we don't need to provide any incentives.

The goal of reducing Middle East imports is a meaningless goal.