Once you eliminate the bureaucratic regulations, what are we dealing with in terms of the actual cost?

Does that make any sense to you?

Does anybody on this panel believe that hydropower is not renewable?

We need more dams, not less.

They are working for this bizarre fever dream that I mentioned earlier.

we have not invented a more expensive way of producing electricity.

we have huge transmission costs with wind and solar because they are low capacity.

you have to keep a megawatt of reliable, immediately obtainable backup power or the grid will collapse.

The bill I introduced two weeks ago shines a bright light on the enormous benefits and potential of federal and non-federal hydropower dams.

This isn't about dam safety. We already have very good laws in place to assure the safety of our dams.

Aren't virtually all of those costs the direct result of the bureaucratic regulations that groups like Mr. Spain's have been successful in imposing?