Jay Inslee: “If our Nation had simply continued the rate of improvement in the mileage efficiency improvements that we had made in…”

“If our Nation had simply continued the rate of improvement in the mileage efficiency improvements that we had made in our fleet of vehicles through the seventies and the early eighties, if we had simply continued that rate of improvement to date, we would have avoided the need for any Saudi Arabian oil today. If you want to remove the environmental community's objections to some of these new energy sources, some of which I believe we need over the long-term, why not remove their argument to say we have not done conservation first? Take that argument away. Do the conservation and efficiency in our transportation system, and remove that argument. I wish that would happen. Secondly, I want to talk about this issue about doing the inventory for potential sources, to do a scientific assessment of our offshore. Normally, that would seem to make sense. Science is always good. Knowing more, I suppose, is intuitively is always better than knowing less. The problem is that every single public policy decision that this administration has made, they have got science, and ignored it.”