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On the recordFebruary 9, 2009
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.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Dorgan emphasizes the need for a national renewable energy standard due to foreign oil dependency.

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