House Proceeding 05-12-09 on May 12th, 2009 :: 1:36:45 to 1:44:00
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Earl Blumenauer: then we have so many other options. of course including efficiency which can be done everywhere da or night. mr. blumenauer: than -- and even problems of intermittiancy dealing with wind energy, if it's coupled with other areas of innovation, like plug-in

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Speech By: Earl Blumenauer

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Earl Blumenauer: hybrids, and using storage capacity in vehicles to be able to help balance some of the load, we have tremendous opportunities to have these work together. i must say we are both from the pacific northwest. the issue of wind integration and how we are going to do that is something that is looming large on my agenda. i know you are concerned.

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Earl Blumenauer: we have our regional power marketing authority, the bonneville power administration, which has been a leader in helping facilitate wind energy, but now is looking at really rather dramatic cost increases for wind integration which i'm hopeful we can look at very hard

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Earl Blumenauer: and help them find ways to not provide disincentives for wind energy production right at the point where all of the incentives tha we have put in place are starting to kick it would be unfortunate if somehow they are priced out of the market at just the time we want to engage them. mr. inslee: we appreciate the gentleman's leadership on

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Earl Blumenauer: i must excuse myself. i want to thank mr. blumenauer for being such a stalwart champion of these causes. we know there's going to be enthusiasts of jobs created in this clean energy revolution and i hope a lot will be in oregon which is a great state. thank you. mr. blumenauer: thank you, congressman inslee, for joining us. and nor your leadership and comments.

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Earl Blumenauer: . mr. speaker, i hope that this chamber will be able to reject the arguments of people who are looking at the smallest possible elements of the puzzle. people who are seeking to politicize it for short-term

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Earl Blumenauer: electoral gain at the expense of the long-term interests of our children. i frankly have been earrassed by some of the argumentation that we have heard, the misrepresentation of just basic factual information. one of the things that we are hearing from, sadly, from

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Earl Blumenauer: republican leadership, is consistent misrepresentation, for instance, of the m.i.t. study that you'll hear referred to. the st. petersburg times had an editorial of late saying the g.o.p. is full of hot air about obama's light switch tax.

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Earl Blumenauer: if the republicans had simply, and i'm quoting here, misstated the results of the m.i.t. study, the truth-o-meter would have been content giving this one fault. but for them to keep repeating the claim after the author of the study told them it was wrong

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Earl Blumenauer: means we have to set the meter ablaze. pants on fire was their evaluation. in the "wall street journal," and i quote, for starters, the figure cited by the republican house leadership is almost 10 times higher than the cost estimate provided in the study by professor riley of m.i.t.

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Earl Blumenauer: the "boston globe," on one particular issue, the assertion that it would mean a light tax switch, it's just wrong, said professor riley, wrong in so many ways it's hard to begin. i would hope, particularly when

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Earl Blumenauer: provisions of the legislation put in place, for people to make wild misrepresentations about costs and consequences does a disservice to what is one of the most important debates of our generation. being able to protect the

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Earl Blumenauer: planet, to restore our economy, to regain our position of technological leadership and be able to put us on a path of sustain blet environmentally and economically for the -- sustainability environmentally and economically for the future, the stakes are too high to have

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Earl Blumenauer: misrepresentation, to have an inability for people to engage in reasonable discussion. i know the republican leader has sa be legislators, they should be communicators, they should be talkers instead of doers. i hope, i fervently hope that many of our colleagu on the

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Earl Blumenauer: other side of the aisle will reject the leadership's marching orders to politicize, to talk, and to not engage and instead to deal with the facts, instead, deal with opportunities to restore our economy, to create millions of clean energy jobs,

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Earl Blumenauer: some in whole new industry that we take important steps to reduce the tragic dependence on imported oil. even if we weren't concerned about the pollution, even if we weren't concerned about global warming and the damage that --

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Earl Blumenauer: that is attendant thereto. just in terms of strategic interests of the united states, we should stop wasting more oil than anyone in the world. we should stop using more oil per capita for transportation than anybody in the world. we should reduce our strategic

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Earl Blumenauer: vulnerability to actions of people who don't like us very much in unstable or hostile parts of the world and of course the damage that is done to our economy by shipping over $1 billion a day overseas. i'm hopeful that we will be able

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Earl Blumenauer: to reduce the carbon pollution that causes global warming, that will enable us to be good stewards of the land now because the effects of global warming is going o-- is going to cost a lot more than the consequences of reducing it. as we've discussed this evening, this is in fact an opportunity for us to put our economy back

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Earl Blumenauer: on track, create millions of jobs, strengthen our strategic position, while we make a contribution to the future of humankind. mr. speaker, i appreciate the opportunity to spend some time this evening dealing with this issue. i look forward to continuing the discussion about the new technologies, about the facts of