Economy moving forward. The American People were loud and clear and give americas new congress to get our country back on track. We heard this call and we are ready to get off to a quick start. By weeks end we will grow the economy and create jobs. The hire more heroes act, the save america cans act and approval of the Keystone Pipeline. The president has not acknowledged the call of the people and threatened to veto the approval of the Keystone Pipeline. Americans cant afford another two years deterred by politics and cant afford threats and posturing instead of legitimate legislating. The American People deserve a congress and president focused on them, not the next election. I dont know what direction president obama will choose for the last two years of his presidency but i can guarantee you that your priorities will be our priorities for americas new congress. Prior to coming to congress, i served as a Energy Regulator and i carried the portfolio and when we sighted the original K
Clearly if these prices persist for a long time, then the reductions in capex that we are seeing are clearly going to start coming in down the road. Right now i think were looking carefully, were being prepared with analyses for alternative pathways forward. Right now consumers are having the benefit. Excellent. Ok, a question over there and the mike will be made available. Please identify yourself. Im a Public Policy scholar here at the wilson center. Can you talk about what the role is for biofuels to remain in the future energy mix . Well, i think the first of all, we certainly continue to invest in biofuels. In fact, just in i guess it was october i was pleased to be in kansas for what is now the largest commercial functioning biorefinery in the country. Our loan program helped put that into place. So if i go back to the what i mentioned about our entry in this book, first of all, actually i think its important that sorry. Let me go back a step. As we celebrate our incredible incre
To a Novel Technology called liquid metal batteries. And the announcement a few days ago was the commercialization of these batteries as utilityscale storage devices. And so thats an example of a Brand New Technology that came out in this kind of open solicitation. In 2012 similarly an example was sensing and computing hardware that could be in a backpacksized device that you could walk in and rapidly generate indoor physical and thermal, etc. , maps of a built structure. So, again, a really interesting idea that probably would not have been brought out in the more targeted solicitations that we do. So we think this is exciting in terms of generating new Technology Ideas Going Forward. But let me also say that this will be a big year for our loan program. I hope some of you have noticed the change in tone of whats been written on the program. For a while it was solyndra, solyndra, solyndra. Well, it turns out theres 30 billion in play in the loan program. The overall default rate has b
My goodness they were tipped upsidedown and had money shaikd out of their pockets at gas stations all across our country for years and finally finally the day of deliverance has arrived and they have 2. 21 on average for the price and now were told the price of oil is too low. Weve got to get it back up again. And so the best way of accomplishing that is to Start Exporting Oil because the less there is here, the less there is in north america is the higher the price is going to be for american drives, for American Home heating oil consumers. Very simple plan. Its not about helping americans at the pump. Its about pumping up the prices for new profits for the Oil Companies. Very simple. And if its not then just accept an amendment that keeps all the oil here. Simplest thing to do and then your rhetoric matches up with the reality of what it is thats going to happen. The fuel will stay here. Theyre not going to accept it. They have already made it very clear. So this is all smart of a wi
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