Maria Cantwell actually said...

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

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

"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 in the last ten years."