10/02/2008
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"The President's 'Twenty in Ten' initiative calls for an Alternative Fuel Standard requiring the equivalent of 35 billion gallons of renewable and other alternative fuels by 2017."
"Our economy has now added jobs for 47 straight months, and the unemployment rate remains low at 4.6 percent."
"It makes little sense at a time of high energy costs to reduce domestic production or to otherwise make America more dependent on foreign sources of energy."
"We've got to be ahead of the people in order to protect the American people."