Anna Eshoo: “The people that are tuned in to this, that are listening to C-SPAN today, we have on the floor a national energy policy.…”

“The people that are tuned in to this, that are listening to C-SPAN today, we have on the floor a national energy policy. What some of us are trying to do is to put the legislative vehicle into drive, to go forward into the future, instead of insisting on keeping the vehicle in reverse. What is at stake are fuel-efficiency standards for how much gasoline we use in this country. If in fact we want to become less dependent on foreign oil, clean up our air, embrace the technologies that are already there on the shelf, then this amendment would absolutely slide through the House. But regardless of who is here in a handful of years, this policy, I predict, will become the policy of our land, because America is always about the future and the best ideas, and not the past.”