Jeff Merkley actually said...

"By meeting our transportation energy needs from domestic fuels we reduce economic and security risks."

"Electric vehicles eliminate pollution from the tailpipe."

"Oil dependence means that the enabled foreign governments to impose unreasonably high gasoline prices on U.S consumers who have no alternative but gasoline to run their cars and get to work."

"We need to take charge of our economic health, our economic future which means breaking our addiction to foreign oil."