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I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere.

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.

Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.

In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top in their use of the web, and numerous studies validate that the U.S. is a global innovation powerhouse. The leading Internet and e-commerce companies are located here.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.