I want to make sure I understand what you were saying to Chairman Bingaman because your answer, I will tell you, troubles me.
Ron Wyden
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Ron Wyden is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oregon, a position he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, Wyden has been a prominent advocate for civil liberties, healthcare reform, and technology policy. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as privacy rights, government surveillance, and access to healthcare, often emphasizing the importance of transparency and accountability in government actions.
Yet we fritter away so much of this extraordinary resource because we have not set in place, as Senator Murkowski notes, the full array of storage technologies that would allow us to capture the full potential of these renewable resources.
There is something pretty bizarre, even by the standards of the Beltway, of throwing away the economic value, for example, of renewable energy because the wind is blowing or the tide is changing at 3 in the morning when demand is low.
I think this is an extraordinarily important topic because I don't think the people of this country, nor those of us in public office recognize that we are wasting so much of our treasure trove, this extraordinary array of renewable energy…
Let's do this. I hope that we'll get a favorable response to the letter I sent Secretary Chu with respect to the vehicles, the Brammo motorcycle that we hadn't gotten a response to that.
I want to hear my government say, this is what we're doing to go gangbusters into a very exciting kind of field.
Isn't it fair to say that this country is missing the boat on energy storage.
That makes no sense even by the bizarre ways of the beltway. It's got to be changed.
In order for us to bring on the intermittent renewable energy we need base load energy.
We've got a piece of legislation, 1091, bipartisan, both House and Senate, to create these incentive tax credits for energy storage.
As Senator Wyden stated when he introduced this bill in late December, 2009, his proposed legislation resulted from months of discussion with stakeholders.
With good people like Senator Barrasso and Senator Udall we're going to set to work to go on about doing it.
Thank you Chairman Wyden, and Members of the subcommittee for providing the Alpine Lakes Working Group with the opportunity to submit this Statement in support of S. 721.
Thank you for holding a hearing on October 29, 2009 on S. 721, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act.
Go to every county, every year, about the support for the stewardship contracting program using that as a model.
We're going to work closely with you and all the parties and Senator Barrasso on this.





