Spencer Abraham
Spencer Abraham
Edward Spencer Abrahamis an American politician who was a United States Senator from Michigan from 1995 to 2001 and the tenth United States Secretary of Energy, serving under President George W. Bush, from 2001 to 2005. Abraham, a Republican, is one of the founders of the Federalist Society and a co-founder of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. To date, Abraham is the last Republican to serve as a U.S. Senator from Michigan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 June 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.
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The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.
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There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.
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The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.
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If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.
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We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children,
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World energy supplies are more than adequate to compensate for any disruption, ... The response by OPEC and major producers like Saudi Arabia, and if needed, our large strategic stockpiles, will ensure that our economy will have the ample supply of energy it needs.
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Well, I think we should look at all federal lands and determine where, in an environmentally sensitive fashion, we can produce more energy and then consider on a case-by-case basis what makes sense, ... At end of the day, I think that we can balance the environment and our energy needs.
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We have been very concerned over the level of storage, but it has been going better over the last two months. The problem has been mainly on the gas side,
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When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, followed just a few years later by East Germany's Soviet parent state, it appeared that after a half-century of hair-trigger tension, America's major security fears would ease.
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Instead of waiting until the shortages get so acute that prices go through the ceiling and people across America confront blackouts and other shortage-inspired problems, let's start on it now with the president's comprehensive plan and we can avoid those difficulties,
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And we intend to do it not just through more supply, but also by balancing supply with conservation, with traditional energy sources against renewable and new sources,
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It will focus on conservation as well as production.
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It will leapfrog the myths that stifle change, ... rejecting the notion that there is no middle ground between environmental protection regardless of the cost and energy exploration regardless of the impact.