The president of DOW Chemical said in a letter I received, he said, We have a debate going on in this country and one side wants production, the other side wants conservation and renewables. He said you're going to need them all. You'll need them both. There's no room for choice.
Discussing energy production and conservation during a floor speech.
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But if you want to make sure that the project costs three or four times what it should, then put the Corps of Engineers in charge, and you will accomplish it.
If there is, maybe there is a way we could legislatively do something to give you those authorities, because it just seems like a wasted opportunity and a waste of resources to not address it.
Well, it's interesting, we have the talking points of the Democrats that they have 68 million acres under lease; there are--some are saying 5,500 leases, some are saying 10,000 leases: That's enough, they're not producing. I had one of…
I think there is more to it than that, though. It is local leadership that is part of it, because local leaders had to recognize the program could assist them, and they reached out and adopted it. Many states still haven't.
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