A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

it would cost power plants about $3 billion to clean up. It's estimated that the costs of the pollution in the air to New York are $60 billion in terms of all of the loss and corrosion and everything else that occurs.

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

PAT committed to have such a study undertaken years ago. Now that this funding has been approved, they will go forward with that.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.