"I don't see that there is any real excuse to not have an interoperable network."
"We need to get the policy right, but we also need some honest answers from our witnesses about what is going on in the real world."
"To put that into perspective--just doing some back of the envelope calculations, 6.5 million gallons is about 20 minutes of fuel consumption for the United States."
"I mean the curve needs to go up fairly rapidly."
"I am a cosponsor of the natural gas bill that Mr. Sullivan is the chief sponsor of."
"Thank you, Chairman Pitts and Ranking Member Pallone for holding this hearing today."
"I am glad to see we used some stimulus money and one of the factories by the way is in Pennsylvania that is doing this new battery technology."
"We got to learn to duck. We have got to learn to start building these facilities in the United States of America."
"I look forward to today's hearing to discuss both the opportunities and the challenges that we face as we attempt to transition to alternative fuels to power our cars and to power our trucks."
"I believe if we are prudent and we work together, both sides of the aisle, we can develop a policy for alternative fuel production that would be to the benefit of all of our constituents and the Ameri..."
"We have to not only put money into R&D, but we have to sustain an effort in this country to create a situation here where we can mass produce vehicles that don't use gasoline."