Y 4. Sci 2:102/3 NATIONAL ENERGY STRATEGY (Part I & II) HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ONE HUNDRED SECOND CONGRESS COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California Chairman JAMES H. SCHEUER, New York RAY THORNTON, Arkansas BUD CRAMER, Alabama DICK SWETT, New Hampshire MICHAEL J. KOPETSKI, Oregon JOAN KELLY HORN, Missouri BARBARA-ROSE COLLINS, Michigan ROBERT S. WALKER, Pennsylvania SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT, New York DON RITTER, Pennsylvania SID MORRISON, Washington D. FRENCH SLAUGHTER, JR., Virginia DICK ZIMMER, New Jersey RADFORD H. BYERLY, Chief of Staff MICHAEL RODEMEYER, Chief Counsel CAROLYN C. GREENFELD, Chief Clerk DAVID D. CLEMENT, Republican Chief of Staff EILEEN LEE, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Environment *Ranking Republican Member. CONTENTS OPENING STATEMENTS FOR THE RECORD Opening statement of the Hon. George E. Brown, Jr., Chairman, Committee Memo from Congressional Research Service to the Hon. Robert S. Walker....... Department of Energy information requested by Rep. Wolpe and Rep. Questions submitted by the Hon. Constance Morella. Questions submitted by the Hon. Terry Bruce.... Questions submitted by the Hon. Ralph Hall... Questions submitted by the Hon. Harris Fawell Questions submitted by the Hon. Robert Walker. Questions submitted by the Hon. Joan Kelly Horn Questions submitted by the Hon. Tim Valentine Questions submitted by the Hon. Tim Roemer William Nitze, President, Alliance to Save Energy, Washington, DC... Hon. Mark Single, Lieutenant Governor, State of Pennsylvania, Harris- Opening statement of the Hon. Marilyn Lloyd. Opening statement of the Hon. Constance Morella Opening statement of the Hon. Don Ritter (IV) NATIONAL ENERGY STRATEGY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1991 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY, Washington, D.C. The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:32 a.m., in room 2318, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. George E. Brown, Jr. [Chairman of the Committee] presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The Committee will come to order. We have the very great pleasure and privilege of having the Honorable James T. Watkins, Secretary of the Department of Energy, here this morning. The Chair will point out to all the members that we have before us some excellent materials, including the Energy Policy material prepared by the Secretary, and other materials which, if the Members of the Committee would really absorb it all, would make them extremely wise and intelligent. The Chair is also going to suggest that we limit our opening statements as much as possible, and the Chair will set a good example by putting all of his very profound words in the record, leaving time for others to make brief statements if they wish. Hopefully, they will limit. That will mean we will be able to devote most of our time to hearing from the Secretary and addressing questions to him. The Chair will likewise continue the policy of trying to recognize members in the order in which they appear at the Committee. The Chair will recognize a Republican spokesman. Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. Chairman, first I ask unanimous consent that the opening statement of our distinguished ranking member, Mr. Walker, be put in the record at this point. The CHAIRMAN. Without object. Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Secondly, I will be brief in about 25 words or less. I would like to welcome the Secretary here. What he is going to be talking about is going to be very critical in terms of setting our energy agenda in the post- Gulf War economy. The post-Gulf War, hopefully, will be relatively soon. I would hope that he and many of our friends in the press don't forget that Congress does not have the power to repeal the law of supply and demand, much as some of us would like to do that. And while this Committee has spent quite a bit of its time in the last ten years looking at various alternative energy sources, one of the reasons why they have not become more readily used is because the price of oil has been a much cheaper and cost-efficient source of energy rather than some of the renewables and more experimen (1) |