Sam Gibbons: “our Nation needs a comprehensive energy policy, and this Chamber passed H.R. 4, Securing America's Future Energy Act…”

“our Nation needs a comprehensive energy policy, and this Chamber passed H.R. 4, Securing America's Future Energy Act, nearly one year ago. Among its many sensible and necessary energy policy provisions, this bill included incentives for the production of geothermal energy. Nevada is literally the heart, the center, of the geothermal energy in the western part of our Nation. Unfortunately most of these valuable resources are located far underneath public land, and with over 87 percent of Nevada's land managed by the Federal Government, Nevada's potential to provide clean energy to the West is severely inhibited. It is time that we unlock these resources and encourage the production of clean and renewable alternative energies. I urge the Conference Committee to report a comprehensive energy bill that meets our Nation's 21st century needs by actively encouraging the production of geothermal and other alternative energies.”