On the recordFebruary 15, 2012
Just to the point of why we aren't able to move--and I agree with Senator Whitehouse, and I think Senator Sanders has seen this also--when you get into energy, there are huge, powerful special interests--especially those special interests that are representing fossil fuels--and they would love nothing better than to just have the status quo. What we have seen is they are relying--and this is amazing to me, and the Senator has been one of the leaders on this issue where Big Oil is getting subsidies today from the Federal Government, and we have tried to take those Big Oil subsidies and move them over into the clean energy area. They resist that even though President Bush and the leaders of their industry say: We don't need these subsidies.
