House Proceeding 04-21-09 on Apr 21st, 2009 :: 2:24:55 to 2:27:50
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2:24:51 to 2:25:11( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: multitalented, and passionate about how we save the environment. mr. hall: thank you, mr. blumenauer. thank you, if you don't mind i'll confine myself to lyrics tonight. like you i have noticed over the years that industries that are about to be regulated cry wolf

2:24:55 to 2:27:50( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: John Hall

2:25:12 to 2:25:33( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: and say that jobs will be lost. as i recall when seat belts were first proposed for cars the automobile industry said, you're going to put us out of business. you're going to throw people out of work. instead it create add whole new industry of building and installing and maintaining seat belts. the same thing with air bags in cars. you're going to put us out of work, a big loss of jobs.

2:25:34 to 2:25:55( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: instead s.r.s. and other companies sprang up inventing, designing, enstalling, and maintaining air bags in cars. the same goes for scrubbers on coal power plants and so forth. i'd like to speak as a member of the transportation and infrastructure committee because the bill that surface transportation bill we are going

2:25:56 to 2:26:18( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: to work on this year will be critical to solving the climate change problem. this upcoming suace transportation and re-authorization is an historic opportunity to take us forward towards the 21st century solution and the 21st century transportation network and begin to deal with climate change. if this bill does not focus not

2:26:19 to 2:26:40( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: only on building and repairing roads and bridges, which is important and does create jobs, of funding going toward mass transit, then it will be a missed opportunity. if the bill does not increase funding for alternative modes of transportations like bicycles and pedestrian walking paths and inner city passenger rail, then

2:26:41 to 2:27:02( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: it will be a missed opportunity. if this bill does not change the way we think about land use planning so that we focus on smart growth,ood use, land use planning principles, and transit oriented development, and complete streets, we will have missed a opportunity. if this bill does not encourage the use of renewable fuels and electric vehicles and plug-in

2:27:03 to 2:27:24( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: hybrids, it will be a missed opportunity. i must remark that a couple weeks ago i drove one of the test vehicles that was here outside that gets 250 miles per gallon in the plug-in hybrid version. i'm sure you saw it here. i won't mention the brand name because i don want to be seen as endorsing a particular company. we could find it on the internet

2:27:25 to 2:27:47( Edit History Discussion )

John Hall: with a little search. the pure electric vision currently gets 70 miles per hour top speed and 100-mile range. well within the commuting range and the speed necessities of most computers. we need to look at all these things and hopefully we'll do that in this bill. furthermore, there's a great

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John Hall: opportunity not just to mitigate climate change effects which have environmental and public