Angie Craig: “Earlier this year--and Senator Dorgan has already mentioned it--we coalesced around three concepts we thought were…”

“Earlier this year--and Senator Dorgan has already mentioned it--we coalesced around three concepts we thought were critically necessary in a current and future energy portfolio and, therefore, the public policy that drives it. We recognized that efficiency would be and must be a part of the equation, that clean energy, the biofuels, must be a part of the equation for the future to make us less dependent. But also something that must be a part of the equation is production of current known and future sources of hydrocarbons. In other words--I will quote the Senator from North Dakota--you can't conserve or drill your way out of the current $3-plus gas we have and the greater dependency we have on foreign nations to supply us, but a combination of both into the future brings us to where this great country ought to be from the standpoint of a national energy policy.”