Rosa DeLauro Quotes
Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology.
United States, Congress, House. Representative DeLauro speaking on Energy Policy. Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, 3 May 2006.
This quotation has been used to by detractors of the George W. Bush administration to illustrate what they call is the “hypocrisy” and “deception” of the administration. Most scientists, energy experts and independent analysts would totally agree with Secretary Brodman’s quotation. Yet, despite the fact that Brazil has already converted have their automobile fuel in this way, and Bush’s Secretary of Energy advocates it, in six years of the administration’s tenure, nothing significant had been done legislatively or policy wise to make this happen despite the fact that the President controlled both houses of Congress. Critics asserted that Bush has been an “oil man” in private business and that the Bush family had very close personal and business ties to the Saudi Arabian royal family. If the United States shifted to an alcohol auto fuel base, oil assets and stocks would become worth much less. See {624556} for a similar Bodman quotation.
Lott, like many other reasonably intelligent people who understood little about technology, did not realize that all the early efforts with a technology are relatively primitive and even the best ideas have to be engineered to scale and cost efficiency. A decade later, solar energy had become a significant industry in the work and the United States, which had invented many of the early technologies had lost the international lead in Solar Energy to Germany and China. The ultimate value of any technology cannot be judged by the initial technological efforts.
Almost a century later dirty vegetable oils from fast food restaurants were used in Diesel truck and tractor engines very effectively and efficiently.
Rosa Luisa DeLauro /dɪˈlɔːroʊ/ is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in New Haven, and includes most of its suburbs. DeLauro is the dean of Connecticut's congressional delegation.
