Hawaii 2006 Senate Debate: on Energy & Oil

Daniel Akaka: Offered hydrogen and ethanol bills for energy independence

A: We must work towards weaning our dependence on foreign oil. I've done this by crafting and offering and passing bills to change this. One is a hydrogen bill that will bring about research and development. Another is a bill for natural gas that's called methane hydrate. These are efforts to help the future in getting out of oil and being self sufficient. I've put in $86 million in projects to convert sugar cane into ethanol.

Ed Case: Investigate the oil companies & reinstate the CAF standards

A: We can and should investigate the large oil companies for price fixing, price gouging. Those investigations haven't even gone forward because the Bush administration won't let them go forward. The second thing of course is to provide for far more efficient automobiles. The Bush administration and the majority in congress let go the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards to require higher efficiency in our cars.