Dianne Feinstein: “when the members of the Senate Energy Committee, including Senator Schumer, Senator Cantwell, Senator Wyden, and I…”

“when the members of the Senate Energy Committee, including Senator Schumer, Senator Cantwell, Senator Wyden, and I, began talking about doing a comprehensive energy bill more than a year ago there were three major things all of us said that we wanted to see in the bill. First we believed that we needed to reduce our energy consumption and hence our country's dependence on foreign oil. Second we wanted to get to the bottom of what was happening with energy markets in California and the West where electricity and natural gas prices were 10-25 times higher that they should have been. And we wanted to do all we could to ensure that a crisis of this magnitude could never happen again. And third, we wanted to address global warming by quantitatively and measurably reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases. These are still the elements I support in an energy bill. But the simple fact of the matter is that these elements are not in this bill.”