"This is very much about jobs."
"We're looking at a variety of technologies which I know the Chairman is very interested in as well."
"I think it's important to note that we really have moved down the road. I mean, we're half way down the road on advanced batteries and electric vehicles."
"I mean, we have started down this road. So my interest and sense of urgency about what we're talking about with Senator Merkley and Senator Alexander's legislation is it completes that."
"We do various things to be able to encourage technologies that we think are important."
"I think this is a very, very important discussion. Personally I believe that as whether it's from jump starting the economy or getting off of foreign oil or jobs."
"We need American, home grown, energy."
"Reducing dependence on foreign oil is an incredibly important."
"I firmly believe that biofuels ethanol, our opportunities around advanced biofuels are critical to provide competition to get us off of foreign oil."
"We need to work on that, Senator Roberts. We need to figure that one out."
"I think what is important that has come from today, one of the messages is that we have put in place a way to be able to create competition for foreign oil, an American-made source, homegrown fuel, an..."
"We can help do that by purchasing with the Federal Government. We can do that with the $7,500 credit."