Lisa Murkowski: “I wonder if the Senator can explain to me how any of the examples he has given on that chart will significantly reduce…”

“I wonder if the Senator can explain to me how any of the examples he has given on that chart will significantly reduce our imports of oil from foreign nations? He is talking about the generation of electricity from these sources, but we do not move out of Washington, DC, on hot air. It takes oil. There is no oil associated with those particular examples. We have to be careful in our definition of energy. There are many kinds of energy. The Senator is absolutely right, those are important alternatives. But to suggest somehow this is directly related to reducing our dependence on imported oil, I think the Senator would agree with me there is very little coalition there because we are talking about two different things.”