leadership from Senator Dorgan

We want to provide tax credits for smart grid enabled charging equipment for electric vehicles.

Senator Dorgan and your cosponsors, Senator Alexander and Merkley, are to be commended for a bill that provides many of the resources needed to move these vehicles into the deployment fast lane.

I am a strong supporter of hydrogen fuel cells.

Heroic leadership really overstates almost anything that happens in the Congress by anybody.

The Government needs to be involved, Senator, for two very important reasons.

I have introduced a major piece of legislation to create a tax credit for energy storage systems connected to the grid as well as buildings and factories and homes.

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I believe that in the longer term hydrogen fuel cells are going to be very important.

the electrification of light-duty transportation falls in this category, and we would strongly recommend for the national security and national economic risks articulated by Senator Dorgan that this legislation move forward.

I think generally speaking most that have been working in this field feel that you need to get a battery capability for a 300- to 400-mile range.

As we look for ways to increase our energy security, decrease the cost of energy and create new jobs, electric vehicles offer a unique opportunity to make progress on all three of these fronts at once.

If we move toward an electric fleet of transportation vehicles, it will substantially reduce our reliance on foreign oil.