“We are a nation at war and we have urgent needs. The surface of our Earth is warming. Our economic upside and benefit, the excellence of a business strategy that seeks to employ these new emerging technologies at a rapid rate that fulfills a national need, both on the individual level and in the aggregate, is what is called for, for everybody to put their talents on the table, not unlike those folks that were called to do that 50 years ago.”
—Assistant Energy Secretary Andrew Karsner speaking to the US Chamber of Commerce Sept. 20, 2006