Political Quotes

“Thank you very, very much for bringing that issue up. It's one that is extremely important in my district because I do have the two major northern California wind farms in my district, one in the Solano County area and the other one in the Altamont Pass area. My own history in this goes back to 1978, when I authored the first State law to provide a tax credit for those companies that built the wind turbines way back in 1978. So we've come a long, long way on this, and we ought to get it going. I notice that you're going to have to go, and I'm going to wrap up shortly after you leave. We've gone through a lot of things here. I'm going to just bring one more issue, and that has to do with the price of fuel in America today. Thank you so very much, my colleague from Oregon, bringing us the Northwest perspective on this. I went out and purchased gasoline this last week when I was back in California, and it was something around the range of $4.15 in one station, another, $4.25. I said, What's going on here? Why are we seeing this sudden rise when, in fact, in the Midwest of the United States, there is actually a surplus of oil? What's happening here? I think we can look to several different things that are taking place. One thing we know that is taking place is speculation.…”