I have heard from the car companies who have said we have the technology literally to put vehicles that use hydrogen out on the road--cars, trucks, vans--but we do not have the infrastructure in order to make it successful.

It is a little hard to understand at the end of the day how you got to a number like that.

What I really would like to hear from you on this question is what are some economic opportunities that the Commission has recognized, identified, that maybe should be pursued, or should be pursued somehow differently.

The 400 processing facilities we have, I understand that the nature of the work that goes on in those facilities has changed a good deal.

Until very recently, I think the UAW employees of the domestic Big Three enjoy, I think, first dollar coverage, just really Cadillac coverage.

I think coming--something that should accompany that would be a plan, something that can be shared, explained, and can be used as an oversight tool to help you.

It is interesting. You closed 58 out of 59 air mail facilities and one out of, what, 400 processing facilities?

Let me just throw out an idea here. I am trying to be entrepreneurial and trying to think of ways that you could be more entrepreneurial.

What I am asking for is that the Board be given the latitude to evaluate our mail volumes and to make decisions, in concert with our mailers, on when it would be prudent to roll back or eliminate six day delivery.

I would just ask that the people you have work on this stuff, put that in their calculations.

So, again, no recommendations, but these are options for Congress to consider.

We should not be surprised that the Postal Service is struggling as well.

I think you are going to tell us, but why?

So the next 2 or 3 years you will continue that reduction.

But 2 years was more acceptable to GAO. Is that correct?

When will that happen?

I just want to say if you look in the auto industry, domestic auto industry, I think they actually have now more retirees than active employees.

I will be anxious to see their new price filings when they come forward with the rate adjustments for May.

I think Mr. Potter would--and he has argued here before--to point out, I think with some pride, the amount of costs that they have taken out of the system in this decade alone.

One area that we have not talked about today is the debt limit. It is $15 billion.

And roughly what percent--is the loss greater in First-Class? Where is it the greatest?

I think it is incumbent to lay it out in a strategy that would talk about not only 6-day-a-week delivery but what other options are being considered.

I think I walk away from this hearing with a better understanding of how we find ourselves in this situation.

The area that we identified in the statement is looking at the employer share of the employee--what the employer pays, the Postal Service, on behalf of its employees for their health care premiums, for current employees.

One of the things that we are trying to do is to push money toward putting people to work.