Jeff Merkley

Those are the types of scenarios that really give people nightmares.

If President Obama could not be convinced that it was worth the risks, I doubt that President Trump would be.

And it is those cases that give people great worry.

I do think when the Trump administration's scientists put out this information, boy, it bears paying attention to it.

The first red column is a human caused impact from the Trump administration's EPA and fellow agency report.

When you say those who are concerned about global warming are paganists, totalitarianists, and Marxists, do you believe Oregon's farmers who are concerned about three worst ever droughts with the impact of climate changes are Marxists or…

Are they pagans because they see the impact of climate change destroying the forests?

When candidate Trump said he was going to drain the swamp, did he mean to take the lobbyists and put them in charge of policy?

Do you believe the planet is getting warmer?

Do you believe carbon dioxide levels have gone up dramatically?

So how do we work together to help take advantage of the changing economics for renewable energy?

I think that point is accurate. In April, when I was meeting with India's power minister... that is an accurate representation of our energy history.

I would encourage you to be careful with charges of hypocrisy. It is kind of a below-the-belt shot.

The value of these resources is so high, they drive an enormous amount of corruption.

As you ponder our energy choices, how do you weigh into your decisions the observable impacts of carbon pollution?

Well, how can we improve that? You indicated that there are some improvements that could be made over at OPIC.

Wind can also produce very low-cost energy, but you tend to see a lot more solar. Why is that?

So one of the things I have often heard as a critique of distributed solar is that you cannot essentially enable there to be manufacturing activities.

Thank you very much. All of you brought different perspectives to bear and expertise. Much appreciated.

One thing that I saw was a very innovative strategy where individuals, instead of buying the system, they buy time on the system.

I would not mind having more of that in Oregon.

I was really struck by just the transition in this single year between April and June driven, I think, by decisions in India related to that dropping price.

One of the things that I have heard often is simply the access to lower interest financing as a significant hurdle.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I sure appreciate our experts coming to share their insights with us today.

It has not generally been the retention of the potential for first use as it has been assured destruction.