On the recordMay 10, 2011
Within the last 3 years, I have met two different individuals--one of them very recently--who have a scientific plan to refine garbage at your garbage dump, solid waste, normal throw-it-in- your-garbage-can stuff, go out there and, through a multiple process, produce gasoline and capture all the CO<INF>2</INF> to be used--in Texas we take CO<INF>2</INF>, put it back down in the ground in old wells, and reenergize those wells to bring more oil to the surface. And the leftovers, after this burning process to create the gasoline, refine the gasoline out of garbage, leaves an ash that is good to plow into fields in certain parts of the country to refurbish the fields. That's the kind of thinking we want. That's great. That's a good idea. And because we're talking energy and we're having energy policy, those good ideas come to the fore. That's what we want. That's how we're going to solve this problem. But we're not going to solve it by shutting down what we have now in hopes that there is going to be this miraculous overnight discovery that's just going to make everything great, like we find some kryptonite or something, and it runs the whole country. Wrong. It ain't going to happen. This is a frustrating time for those of us that are in energy- producing States because we have people that literally don't like the production of energy, but they complain about the production of energy. They want to tax it.…
