So without natural gas, it would be pretty unrealistic to meet the demand?

I met with the Chinese Ambassador yesterday, and I will close with this. I said we are going to have an honest discussion about the way you produce electric cars. Get ready for that discussion.

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there…

Mr. President, I have a resolution that I am looking forward to passing here on the Senate floor. I am pretty sure no one is going to object to it, but we will see in a minute. Before I begin, I want to do a huge shout-out and…

Mr. President, with that, given that there is no objection, that Senate resolution has now passed in the United States. It unanimously is on record finally, in 2024, thanking our Vietnam veterans for their service, for their sacrifice…

Mr. President, I am here on the floor today to ask unanimous consent for a long, long overdue resolution. It is a resolution that I guarantee most Americans are going to be like: What? Wait. What? We haven't done that yet? The Senate, the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to speak for up to 15 minutes prior to the scheduled rollcall vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Government is not that smart. I mean honestly, $7.5 billion. We have seven charging stations.

We mess up when we--you know, government does not do very well.

China dominates the battery industry and our subsidies are providing a market for China's command economy.

Let us face it, they have been trying to innovate batteries for decades and really have not been able to do it, have they?

I would say you do not. We should end them.

I would never go to 100 percent EV. Happy to do the hybrid. Happy to be environmentally friendly.

Stop subsidizing this. That is my only point.

Those climate alarmists are generally opposed to nuclear, which certainly would be part of the problem.

If you want to maintain the user pay/user benefit principle, that all vehicles that use the road should pay something.

The left is holding up the environmental permitting reform necessary to mine for the domestic critical mineral which we need to compete with China, while urging a massive EV market share expansion.

If U.S. policymakers do not support the development, commercialization and acceptance of electrified vehicles, our nation risks becoming more dependent on foreign sources for raw materials and critical minerals and the future defined by…