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Mike Conaway: “Will the gentleman help us understand, as we talk about these supplies, a variety of energy resources, we assume, for…”

On the recordNovember 13, 2007
Will the gentleman help us understand, as we talk about these supplies, a variety of energy resources, we assume, for the lack of this conversation, that it's all equal and that it all costs the same amount of money to produce, and that's the fallacy. One of the problems with a renewable portfolio standard of 15 percent, now, that our chart does not depict just electricity, but if we had a chart that did just electricity, the big players are going to be the same.
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Mike Conaway
Texas

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Discussing the implications of a renewable portfolio standard during a debate on energy resources.

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