If we're going to move toward an electric-drive-vehicle future, nearly 70 percent of the oil we use in the transportation fleet comes from outside of our country--if we're going to do all this, it seems to me you logically have to create some sort of renewable energy standard.
Dorgan emphasizes the need for a national renewable energy standard due to foreign oil dependency.
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Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to proceed as if in legislative session and as if in morning business for the purpose of clearing processed legislative language. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
These are solemn promises by the government and then what has been done relevant to those promises.
Taking thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands of people off government assistance and giving them hope is the way to go.
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