Tom Carper actually said...

"We have a surface transportation system that is in bad shape, and we can do better than this, and we need to do better than this"

"I think the last thing is that a national pilot is definitely necessary if the Federal Government is going to engage in this activity."

"I will be extremely concerned about any proposal that we adopt that allows for this kind of selective choosing of winners and losers and deliberate suppression of consumer choice toward electric vehic..."

"the States are laboratories of democracy, and they give us the opportunity to find out what works and do more of that"