I want to pick up on a point that David Keith made, the fact that we used to be in the lead on carbon capture and storage and now we're not. The question is, how do we get there again?
The challenge I'm hearing from the witnesses—unless I'm missing something—is that this is such a crucial technology, an enabling technology unlike like any other. We find ourselves almost in the same situation we were during World War II, when there was a shortage of natural rubber. We just said, we've got to build an artificial rubber plant in Sarnia, we're going to call it Polysar, and it's going to take us 18 months. Or we needed a breakout technology in the destructive world, and we did the Manhattan Project. I mean, we just got on with it.
I'm trying to reconcile what seems to be an extraordinary opportunity here with the attitude, don't mandate, don't specify; just put in the signals and the best technology will emerge.
So I'm asking, Dr. Keith, if we're going to do the Manhattan Project on CCS without telling anybody what to do, how do we privilege the choice?