Political Quotes

“My amendment is just plain common sense. It addresses the importance of all types of research and development funding at the Department of Energy, specifically the energy research conducted at the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. I believe we need a plan that is closer to parity between renewable energy and fossil fuels and research on ways to reduce the environmental and climate impact of the use of fossil fuels. In the underlying bill, $2.994 billion is appropriated for energy efficiency and renewable energy, while only $857.9 million is appropriated for fossil energy and carbon mitigation. I am advocating with this amendment that we should be closer to parity between the amount of money appropriated for fossil energy and carbon mitigation research and DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. My amendment increases the fossil energy and carbon mitigation account by $600 million, along with a reduction of $1.1 billion from the renewables account. This year alone, we have seen that these concepts that we are going to get rid of fossil fuels are just not realistic, Mr. Chairman. We saw a plant open up, or at least the plans for it, a Panasonic plant in Kansas, that was going to do electric vehicle batteries. The problem was, in order to get the plant, they needed more electricity.…”