James M. Jeffords: “I commend my good friend. He has articulately outlined and put the issues in focus as to what we are discussing. Coming…”

“I commend my good friend. He has articulately outlined and put the issues in focus as to what we are discussing. Coming from Vermont, one of the States that has the most desire, perhaps, to take advantage of the situation, going to my own personal history back to 1939, I was just a kid, but we had the first commercial windmill in the United States. It was working fine until a hurricane blew it away. It was an example to us of what the potential is. Now we have windmills going over the State, up and down the State. Hopefully, there will be more and more. We have them located in nice places that do not spoil the view. What a great source of energy to take advantage of, especially in a State that is really being hard hit by all of the acid rain and other stuff that floats to us from places known and unknown. But I want to share with everyone the experiences we have had. Going back again, 29 years ago, the wind energy program started. It has come quite a ways, but now is the time to really maximize its utility and to keep this Nation going in the direction which will lead us away from the huge problems we have with being so dependent upon foreign oil and all those matters.”