Michael Burgess: “this has indeed been a long process. I thank the chairman and I thank the ranking member for providing us with the…”

“this has indeed been a long process. I thank the chairman and I thank the ranking member for providing us with the leadership that has given us this balanced legislative product. Mr. Speaker, conservation, production, alternative energy sources, and new technologies, hybrid vehicles, fuel cell vehicles are all part of this energy bill that we have before us today. In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country. And while people know that we have lots of wind and lots of sun in Texas, you may not know that we have garbage in Texas. And in Denton, Texas, my hometown, we have a new biodiesel plant, and the energy for that biodiesel plant is taken entirely from methane from the city dump, truly a balanced way to achieve new sources of energy. Mr. Speaker, again I thank the chairman for the leadership in bringing this bill for us today, and I urge my colleagues to support it.”