Maria Cantwell actually said...

Vehicles affect almost all Americans. Today's hearing is a way to talk about new vehicle technologies.

American vehicles are still very dependent on oil. In fact, transportation is responsible for 70 percent of U.S. petroleum usage.

I think what is happening is consumers find out more information about pollution and particularly in China they are raising great concern.

I want to emphasize a few things. Utility scale wind capacity has grown by 677 percent from less than nine gigawatts to nearly 70 gigawatts ...