"And finally, I am 13 seconds, one reason why it makes sense not just to use the McKinsey study and invest in efficiencies, but do to cap and trade, is to unleash the creativity of the ideas that will attack carbon dioxide and other global warming gases from every direction."
"Well, I want to really emphasize how much potential carbon dioxide savings are here."
"If we move to do two things, increase our use of plug-in vehicles and green up the electric grid... we will have very significant impacts."
"If you will, to go at least 30 miles on electricity, that we would reduce 70 to 80 percent of the carbon dioxide produced by personal vehicles."
"I think that will dramatically drive change."
"the increase in the allocation for renewable energy and energy efficiency is something that we have worked hard on on this committee."
"One of the questions that I think it is worth wrestling with is whether we should have a coherent national strategy to reduce our importation of oil."
"the funds that flow overseas when we purchase energy, and those funds that go to Venezuela, that go to Saudi Arabia."
"I believe transportation is about 60 percent of the carbon dioxide, and personal vehicles are about a third of that."
"Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate all of your testimony and particularly getting to the nitty gritty of the allocations."
"Isn't that demanding? And we could actually bridge that entire factor with energy efficiency alone if we really applied ourselves to it, a strategy that actually pays us back."