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Rudy Giuliani on Environment and Energy
I think we have to accept the view that scientists have that there is global warming and that humans contribute to that.
2007 GOP debate at Saint Anselm College Jun 3, 2007
"Q: Is science wrong, and what steps would you take to address the issue of climate change? GIULIANI: I think we have to accept the view that scientists have that there is global warming and that human operations contribute to that."
"I do believe there's global warming, yes,'' said Giuliani, in response to reporters' questions following his talk to the Churchill Club. "The big question has always been how much of it is happening because of natural climate changes and how much of it is happening because of human intervention.''
Q: If we sign Kyoto, wouldn't then a lot of factories and jobs and investments just move offshore to China and India? GIULIANI: They would move offshore to China and India and it would have no impact on global warming. Whatever your scientific conclusion about global warming, whether it's manmade or it isn't or whatever, the reality is that if you don't have restrictions on China, if you don't have restrictions on India, our contribution, ultimately, is going to be minor.
Interview on "Kudlow & Company", RealClearPolitics.com Mar 26, 2007
Let's look at wind and solar from the point of view of can we spare that energy? Right now, it's inconsistent energy. When the wind is blowing, you get energy. When it isn't, you don't. Is there a way to develop a technology that you can store it? Can we clean coal? Carbon sequestration, it can be done.
Interview on "Kudlow & Company", RealClearPolitics.com Mar 26, 2007
We don't give up on solar and wind. The big breakthrough there will has to be developing a battery that will retain the power so that solar power and wind power are delivered consistently.
Giuliani repeated his criticism of the Clinton administration's refusal to free up part of the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to counterbalance the soaring cost of oil.
Thomas Lueck, New York Times Feb 17, 2000
We need to take advantage of oil deposits in the United States, up in Canada to Mexico and the Continental Shelf. We've got to do it in a way that won't cause significant damage to our environment.
Q: Al Gore wants carbon caps and a carbon tax. What's your take? GIULIANI: I don't like taxes. I don't know how to make that any clearer. I don't like taxes. Inventing new ones is a very big mistake. Find other ways to do it. If you want to deal with global warming, the way to deal with global warming is to develop these alternative technologies.
Interview on "Kudlow & Company", RealClearPolitics.com Mar 26, 2007
"How do you do energy independence? You do energy independence by encouraging ethonal, clean carbon, carbon sequestration...we haven't licensed a nuclear power plant in 30 years. France is 80%-85% nuclear. China is building 40 nuclear power plants in the next decade or so."
Besides expanding nuclear power and renewable fuels like ethanol, Giuliani also called for more clean coal technologies, more clean-burning natural gas, environmentally safe drilling for oil and natural gas in North America and new technologies like hybrid cars and hydrogen fuel cells.
We should get serious about why we haven't licensed a new nuclear power plant in 30 years because people are afraid of nuclear power. I do security work for nuclear power. Nuclear power is dangerous, so is every other form of power, but nobody's died from nuclear power.
Interview on "Kudlow & Company", RealClearPolitics.com Mar 26, 2007
Mr. Giuliani called for increased use of ethanol, so-called clean coal technology, nuclear, hydroelectric, solar, and wind-generated power.
Q: Can you step up and tell the automakers to make the miles per gallon better? GIULIANI: You can do that. I don't like mandates, I don't think mandates generally work. I think mandates are kind of inconsistent with the kind of economy we have.
The mayor's office has been in a long-running legal squabble over so-called community gardens - vacant, city-owned property that residents have claimed and are using to raise vegetables and plant flowers. Giuliani has been pushing to return hundreds of the sites to the tax rolls by selling them to developers. Garden advocates argue that the city is squandering open space and bulldozing lush urban sanctuaries.
NY Daily News: August 2, 2001
Only hours after the New York City Transit Authority announced that it expected to end the year with a rosy surplus of $103 million, a senior aide to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that the administration would cut its contribution to the authority by almost exactly that amount.
But facing a $1 billion deficit in the city's budget, Mr. Giuliani has cut $250 million in capital financing for the M.T.A. this year, slashed $113 million earmarked for paying student fares and pared down the city's subsidy for the subway system's operating budget by $26 million. In defending the cuts, Mr. Giuliani has portrayed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as a swollen bureaucracy with higher-than-necessary executive salaries and too many well-heeled private consultants. He has also pointed out that the M.T.A. had a $100 million surplus cash balance from increasing ridership that it can use next year to offset the cuts.