So my message to your committee, Senator Bingaman, to the Congress, and to the American people, is not a message of doom and gloom about our continuing dependence on oil.
We need Federal policies to support biofuels expansion.
We've reduced our dependence on imported oil by 10 percent in less than 10 years.
Our bill, S. 187, does basically three things.
I think we can have optimism and confidence based not upon a will of a whisp or some ephemeral kinds of ghosts.
The biggest challenge that we face in biofuels is what I call marketplace expansion.
Success isn't a slam dunk. We have some major challenges.
This gives us a chance--particularly with Senator Murkowski's leadership generally--in water-power technologies to reall...
But I think we recognize--and this is why the legislation today is so important--that there is much more to be done.
It's going to allow us to tap, in effect, untapped energy from water on its way to the kitchen tap that's now being wast...
So, the opportunity to promote clean power generation and create domestic jobs, while at the same time addressing enviro...