If the price of oil stays high and our taxes along with it, I expect more jobs lost, more flights cut and more airlines in crisis.

Katrina exacerbated an already untenable situation with respect to the price of oil on our industry,

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

Allowing taxes to go up on all Americans would have raised taxes by $3,000 for a typical American family. And that could cost our economy well over a million jobs.

Oil is still doing its thing. And there's some follow-through from Friday's (jobs) number.

Anyone who wants to cut taxes on energy as an answer to higher oil prices has already lost, ... You would be opening your national budget to OPEC and the oil industry.