Shelley Berkley said "The horrific crisis and tragedy in the gulf must be a wake-up call to America that we must break our addiction to fossil fuel and move with all deliberate haste to a renewable energy future or America simply will have no future. Energy independence is an economic necessity. We can create an entire economy based on green jobs. It's not only an environmental necessity. Look at the crisis that we have in the gulf with the loss of life and the destruction of an ecosystem that will take a lifetime to fix. It's a national security imperative. We have to break from our reliance on the Saudis and the Venezuelans, the BPs of the world, and harness the sun, wind, geothermal, biomass. The State of Nevada can become the epicenter of renewable energy. We just need the will to do it. I ask my colleagues to please join me in a renewable energy future for this great country." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 16, 2010

The horrific crisis and tragedy in the gulf must be a wake-up call to America that we must break our addiction to fossil fuel and move with all deliberate haste to a renewable energy future or America simply will have no future. Energy independence is an economic necessity. We can create an entire economy based on green jobs. It's not only an environmental necessity. Look at the crisis that we have in the gulf with the loss of life and the destruction of an ecosystem that will take a lifetime to fix. It's a national security imperative. We have to break from our reliance on the Saudis and the Venezuelans, the BPs of the world, and harness the sun, wind, geothermal, biomass. The State of Nevada can become the epicenter of renewable energy. We just need the will to do it. I ask my colleagues to please join me in a renewable energy future for this great country.

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Shelley Berkley

Nevada

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Editor's note · Context

Speaker Berkley addresses the need for a transition to renewable energy following the Gulf crisis.

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