Before the Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power United States House of Representatives

In my written statement for the May 5 hearing, I reviewed the strategic importance and value of alternative fuels. In that review, I emphasized that achieving the potential economic and national security benefits offered by alternative fuels requires that domestic production of alternative fuels must be an appreciable fraction of domestic demand for liquid fuels. Alternative fuels derived from oil shale and coal have the potential to meet that important criterion; each has the potential to displace millions of barrels of daily crude oil imports.