Something. Thank you. Thank you so much for the discussion. Im show jen from china daily. Speaking of asia and china, i want to ask what china and the u. S. Could do to cooperate in terms of Scientific Research and manufacturing and also the promotion of the new technology of Energy Sources and what is the role of ecp in this cooperation. And also, how they effect the economy, the politics an the bilateral relationship between china and the u. S. Thank you. Steve. [ laughter ] that is a big question. So i will take a stab at this but then im handing it straight over to you. All right. Only because your right inside of the game and this is that the cooperation, in my own view, will happen after the innovation. The competition is too stiff, the stakes of winning are too high for any of the countries to cooperate with each other. You are not going to have, for example, japan handing over its innovations to china, to south korea or south korea doing so with china or the United States doing
Electricity from great batteries and methanol from natural gas to get the consumption of oil way down. Thanks, thanks for that question. The short answer is that there are inventors and companies and argan talk about this. Im sure, who are trying all of these. And one of the im a believer in natural car natural gas car future. And its for this reason, that so, you know, in economics, you know, does supply create demand does demand create supply . It goes both ways. One of the most interesting formulations is supply creating demand. And it goes back to the way i like to picture it, is the cocaine model. So did americans become hooked on crack cocaine because we started out being hooked on crack cocaine and then the cartel responded to that . Or did the cartel start pumping cocaine into the United States and then the market developed from that . So just transferring that over to natural gas, here we are in a world were utterly awash in natural gas. I checked yesterday, natural gas is 2.
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Well call the Sub Committee to order and like to ask that members who are not on the Sub Committee be permed to sit with Sub Committee of todays hearings to ask questions. With that objection that is still ordered i would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. It is going to focus , obviously, on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And a committee that is holding a host of hearings toth gaer idea on what congress can do to achieve this goal and today were going to hear ideas from highways and transit stake holders. Gathering input from stake holders is essential to the process, an that we use to develop Service Transportation policy. And it is valuable in efforts to pass the first longterm highway bilge in a decade and continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even though with Additional Resources we provided nation Service Transportation system needs additional investment. Enacting longterm solution is a critical component to ensuring that we can
Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. It was vital to pass the first longterm highway bill and a continue to we will need your assistance with teacher legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations Transportation System still needs additional investments. And acting a longterm solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to ensure address those needs into the future. Act, hasn the fast been a central priority of the committee. Funding forderal our nonfederal partners is vital to planning and Building Infrastructure for the 21st century. And is a bipartisan issue look forward to working constructively with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to ensure we are going to achieve this goal. Modern infrastructure means a Strong America and an america that competes globally and creates jobs. Of our like to thank all witnesses for being here today and i look forward to the testimony. I will turn to the Ranking Member for