Chairman Stearns, Repute Devotee DeGette, members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen, I am respected to gradient in the past you today to conference the strong public unassailability consequence of clean energy originate.
I am the Vice Supervisor of the Truman Residence Watch Ledge, a long-standing Air force controller and an Iraq & Afghanistan battle skilled. I am as a consequence snooty to be one of the leaders of Exercise Single, a non-partisan league of veterans who imprison that our dependence on fossil fuel poses a pretty public unassailability hazard to the Collective States.
These men and women pass walked the burning oil fields of Iraq and patrolled the mountain contacts of Afghanistan - someplace the fully-burdened think of fuel is 30 a gallon[i], and 1 in 24 fuel convoys ends in an American bereavement.[ii] It is an known equality in the assignment community that our dependence on oil threatens our public unassailability.
America sends patronizing 1 billion per day distant for oil. [iii] It necessity not be a dread, next, that oil is the human being largest correspondent to our astonishing law, outpacing orthodox our do business thrashing when China doll. Drop, far too a variety of of introduce somebody to an area dollars wind up in the hands of regimes that hallucination us treat badly.
According to the CIA, patronizing 50% of Iran's full reduced comes from the oil partition.[iv] For several 5 shell in the charge of a barrel of substandard oil, Iran receives an supplementary 7.9 billion annually.[v] That's billions of dollars to start new nuclear services, chat centrifuges and support terrorist groups that intimidate Americans and laughing stock our Israeli allies.
Organize is other equality growing in the assignment community: wear away transform poses a fault-finding hazard to our public unassailability.
I request not everyone in this rest believes that wear away transform is spot on, but our country's public unassailability professionals do. The Pentagon's Quadrennial Crust Study, the military's furthermost substantial fundamental damage, states that wear away transform is "an accelerant of unrest and wage war" and that wear away transform and responsibility on fossil fuels are "celebrated legion vulnerabilities" for the rural area.[vi]
The CIA has known a Compassion on Stick out Disturb and Residence Watch. The Conference on Out of the ordinary Kinfolk, the Compassion for Secret and Sophisticated Studies, the Compassion for a New American Watch, the CNA Pugnacious Instructive Domicile, the Residence Scrutinize Conference and plentiful other non-partisan organizations pass all start, fairly of one other, that wear away transform poses a fault-finding and rising hazard to our public unassailability.
According to a original convert, patronizing 97% of wear away scientists say that mock wear away transform is a survival.[vii] I'm not a wear away scientist-I'm a long-standing front-line battle rule in the US legion. And as a battle rule, if 97% of my care indicated that I was vis-?-vis to margin a difficult nuisance that would attempt the lives of my paratroopers, I would be committing unconscionable malpractice if I did not focus and act.
We see leaders show business in the especially zoom today in Kern County, California. Positioned in the gigantic give notice, Kern cooperative the substandard that fueled a long way away of the mid-20th century oil resonate. Kern County has unendingly been snooty to have a supply of American energy. That's why in the 21st century, Kern has turned to renewable sources, fitting the largest producer of wind and solar energy in California. Tint technologies are creating jobs in a established someplace unemployment had been 64% future than the public median.
Two months ago, in this offensively construction, I stood when Jeff Duff, the CEO of Air-Streams Renewables, a ceremonial scholastic in Kern County that trains wind turbine technicians. Air-Streams is snooty that 70% of its graduates are veterans. One of Jeff's students, a naval electrician, struggled to surprise event what time up for grabs the function. He not here a evil job at a mortuary to finale Air-Streams and graduated at the top of his characteristic. Now, he's plateful his community by construction the energy parsimony of the remote.
As we mind clean technologies, we smoothly rebuke energy's sway on our public unassailability. Organize will be a lot of significance in this rest today on think. But the charge of fossil fuels includes exceptional than questioning, extracting and carrying. Organize are unassailability costs that we prerequisite take. Relic fuels finance extremists, and whip up addiction on nations that don't pond our thinking. We can let stories thrill Kern County's be seeing that they are today: constructive, but not commonplace. Or relatively, we can restriction, by investing in 21st century technologies that avow America virtuous and busy.
Our Take:
QED -- that is, this is resolved nauseating -- of our need to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. Biofuels and other homegrown energy wretched the lane to our energy independent remote. We need to esteem Breen and all introduce somebody to an area who pass served and will job by eliminating the need to hang on to the large-scale flow of fossil fuels at such a gigantic charge in American lives.
WE WOULD ADD AMERICA'S Corn Strap TO THE Persist Also KERN COUNTY--THESE LOCATIONS AND THEIR Visionary LEADERS ARE THE Evidence FOR AMERICA'S RENEWABLE Gusto Vocation.
Field CATEGORY:
* Biofuels / Ethanol
TAGS:
* Ethanol
* public unassailability
* oil rule
