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 increase in the allocation for renewable energy and energy efficiency is something that we have worked hard on on this committee.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate all of your testimony and particularly getting to the nitty gritty of the allocations.
I believe transportation is about 60 percent of the carbon dioxide, and personal vehicles are about a third of that.
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 vehicl...
This bill is a choice of creating jobs for Americans or sending those jobs overseas.
It is a choice between a strong, secure energy independent America or a weaker, oil addicted America.
Well, certainly I and many members of this committee would love to work with you as you dig deeper into those numbers and identify those bar...
Isn't that demanding? And we could actually bridge that entire factor with energy efficiency alone if we really applied ourselves to it, a s...
we could achieve 17 percent reduction in our carbon dioxide through energy efficiency alone