We do not have the transportation infrastructure that all you in the lower 48 have. We don't have energy grids that tie us in.
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And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.
I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.
The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.
The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.
This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.
We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.
The fact is, America needs energy and new energy infrastructure, and the Keystone XL pipeline will help us achieve that with good stewardship.
How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
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