Frederick W. Smith: “We ought to produce them and use some of the revenues to develop new alternatives and fund infrastructure.”

Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, activity for activity, it is hard to find a thing the United States has done that is more effective than ARPA-E.

I believe that after terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, our increased dependence on petroleum represents the biggest single threat to our nation's economy and national security.

I urge you and your colleagues to consider modernizing trucking regulations to include these trailers that have proven to be safe and efficient.

The combination of the leadership of the Congress in deregulating transportation and the funding mechanism that was put in place to build our transportation infrastructure was very important to the economic prosperity of this country.