Lamar Alexander

By my computations, if all that were fully implemented, we would reach the Kyoto goals by 2030 without a cap-and-trade, and do it in a low cost way.

I believe we can electrify half our cars and trucks--I learned that from one of the witnesses here today--during the next 20 years.

Thanks, Madam Chairman. Let me welcome Senator Warner, especially, and the entire group of witnesses. I look forward to that.

One example, in terms of constructing a new nuclear plant, between 1,400 and 1,800 jobs per plant are created.

For some reason, new nuclear power is not allowed to be included in this legislation in terms of meeting renewable energy standards.

We should not, however, as a Congress, make the decision that we will pick the winners and losers.

I think we should incentivize and support a broad diversity of different types of energy in our country.

Thank you very much for taking time to be here.

The fact of the matter is, taxpayers have never paid a penny as a result of that.

Under the Price-Anderson Act, the taxpayers never paid a penny for a nuclear accident.

And the way to create the largest number of those green kinds of jobs, or those kinds of jobs, would be to build 100 new nuclear plants in 100 years.

We have got to put a price on carbon and a cap on carbon emissions across the whole economy without picking winners or losers if we really want America to compete and to get these innovations into the market quickly.

The Government has enacted a Production Tax Credit so narrowly defined it is mainly a windmill tax credit.

Should nuclear also be supported by the Production Tax Credit, by the Investment Tax Credit?

If we wait a decade to get America in this race, we are out of it. It is gone.

If nuclear energy produces 70 percent of our carbon-free electricity, and our goal is to reduce carbon, why is it not at the top of your list?

I want to talk, and I am honestly trying to understand this, I am trying to get the bottom of this.

We would like to electrify our cars and trucks for conservation.

Here is our policy. We have a low cost, rather than a high cost, clean energy policy.

When I think of jobs, I think of my State. So here is what is going on in my State: people are looking for cheap energy.

This was Washington, once again setting the rules and, as Senator Lamar Alexander loves to say, sending the bill to the States.

Let's make energy from the sun, the wind and the earth.

The problem with coal is that we haven't built a new nuclear plant in 30 years.

I think the marketplace should work through a cap-and-trade system.

I believe it has to be part of the solution.