[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 58 (Tuesday, April 21, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H4528]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        SET A STANDARD FOR TECHNOLOGY NEUTRAL, LOW-CARBON FUELS

  (Ms. SPEIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday's Washington Post featured a 
column by Eli Hopson from the Union of Concerned Scientists calling for 
a technology neutral, low-carbon fuel standard.
  The Congress and the administration should not be picking winners and 
losers when it comes to technology. We did that for ethanol and it led 
to dire unintended consequences as land once used for growing food was 
converted to fuel production and the price of corn has skyrocketed so 
those who need it for survival can no longer afford it.
  Meanwhile, innovators across America are achieving remarkable 
results. On a recent visit to a company in my district called Solazyme 
in South San Francisco, I drove an unmodified American car that ran on 
100 percent fuel from algae oil produced right here in the United 
States of America.
  Mr. Speaker, exciting projects like this are going on all across our 
country, and the only thing that the government needs to do to 
encourage them is to set a standard for low-carbon fuels that is 
technology neutral and then let the scientists and the innovators race 
to the top.

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