>> well, the issue is, are we as a nation making a commitment to becoming energy independent? right now, with the internal combustion engine and our reliance on foreign oil, the issue for us is are we going to have an electric vehicle, are we going to become independent of foreign oil, and if we do, we don't want to replace our dependence on foreign oil with a dependence on foreign batteries. >> retraining workers takes years. can you say when you think the economy back here in michigan is going to come to life? >> it's not going to be overnight, that's for sure. it's taken us 100 years to be so reliant on the auto industry. our focus on michigan has been on diversifying our economy. this is one sector of that diversification that builds on the automotive strengths. but truly we are hungry and we've got a lot of tremendous workers who know how to do advanced manufacturing. you can't go to another state that has people like we do, who know how to do programming of robots, machining, the kinds of technology that go into the