About 18 months ago they sat here and they said, ``Drill, baby, drill''? I heard the same thing tonight. They said, End the moratorium on deepwater drilling. Drill. And I am going, You want another oil spill? Thirty-eight in the last 18 years in the gulf plus this big one. That's not the solution. The solution lies in moving to a new energy source, the green technologies, the renewable energy, so that it is the sun that gives us the power in the future so that that young lady doesn't have to face the extraordinary impact that climate change will bring. We have to move away from carbon-based fuels. Would you agree with that?
John Garamendi: “About 18 months ago they sat here and they said, ``Drill, baby, drill''? I heard the same thing tonight. They said, End…”
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Garamendi addresses the need for renewable energy over deepwater drilling.
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