Gary Hart: “It is with pleasure that I stand up to support this energy bill. It contains a lot of different things; it is broad, it…”

“It is with pleasure that I stand up to support this energy bill. It contains a lot of different things; it is broad, it is all-encompassing. The problems that we are looking to solve are not new ones. In fact, people in my constituency and probably all over the country have been calling their congressional Members about these for a number of years. But the problem of high gas prices, high electrical prices, high gasoline prices at the pump cannot be solved unless we have a comprehensive energy policy. That is what this bill does. Vice President Cheney came to my district to launch the discussion nationwide. It was very well received. People are very happy to hear that we finally are going to have a comprehensive plan. Advancements in technology are included in here: clean coal technologies, nuclear advancements, fuel cells, investigation of renewable energy sources such as biomass, wind energy, hydro energy. But conservation is a very large part of this, and it is very important that we all understand that it is everyone's responsibility to be part of that conservation.”