Political Quotes

“Mr. President, if I may, I know the Senator from Kansas spoke about this issue that we worked on in the Energy Committee over a year ago. We worked together to get what is called a renewable electricity standard, some people also call it a renewable portfolio standard--through the committee process. A renewable electricity standard is a requirement that a certain percentage of electricity delivered be from renewable sources--wind, solar, and so on. I believe that it is very important to do that. I appreciate the Senator from Kansas and his position. There is an old saying: If you don't care where you are going, you are never going to be lost. If our country does not describe the route we want to take, if we don't say here is where we want to go as a country, then wherever we find ourselves 5 and 10 years from now, that is where we are, I guess. I believe however, that it ought to be a circumstance where we decide what our energy future looks like. I believe that we should incentivize the development of renewable energy. How do we maximize the development of wind and solar energy? By creating a renewable electricity standard that drives the development and by building the transmission that allows us to produce it in one area and move it to a load center in another area. We did that in the bill that passed the Energy Committee just over a year ago.…”