If I understand what you're saying, you're not at that point now.

In the last decade both passive and active RFID technologies have progressed greatly, with many government and nongovernment studies showing great cost savings in asset and personnel management and tracking.

My view is that there should be considerably more than that. There should be congressional participation.

unfortunately we have been down this road before.

Typically it comes from either South America or China.

I appreciate the comments.

It's become popular, particularly when focused on energy policy to say that we're falling behind China in sort of a clean energy race. I guess I would challenge that.

From the investment side of things I know one of the things that I hear as I'm talking to folks is you don't give us any level of predictability with the subsidies that are out there.

We should start doing that.

I think we need to keep that in mind.

We want to have fair labor standards. We insist on those. We want to have environmental compliance. We insist on that.

The real question is is how effective, how efficient are they really in the process that we're all trying to advance?

We're at a time when we are looking at budgets. We're pretty quick to pick winners and losers through the budgetary process.

Because it would appear that when you look to those countries around the world that seem to be leading when it comes to the clean energy investment, they also appear to be leading in the category of subsidies as well.

We're causing it ourselves.

We can and we should work with China wherever possible to make progress on our energy challenges.

We think about it more not just in terms of rare Earths, but also in terms of strategic minerals.

I think a decision has to be made to support an environmentally acceptable way for greater production in the United States.