I don't think there are too many people who would disagree with a greener world; I think we all want it.
You mentioned something about batteries. I'm going to tell you that this intrigues me. Where I live in southwestern Ontario, we don't have any trees, because it's great farmland and they cut them all down. But we have windmills—wind turbines, we like to call them. We have a forest of wind turbines, and they're all pushing....
The trouble is, as you probably know, that they turn when the wind is blowing, and oftentimes that's not when we need the power. As a matter of fact, we don't need the power, so we sell it more cheaply and we have to buy.... So there's a problem.
Batteries? Listen, I believe batteries represent an answer, but here's the problem that comes to mind. I know that when we got really excited about solar energy—I think we still look at the possibilities—we pumped billions of dollars into it. As a matter of fact, I think President Obama put a billion dollars into a company, and a year later they went broke. Why did they go broke? It's because the Chinese made them, and the Chinese make them a whole lot cheaper.
The same thing is true with wind turbines. I've been to those Chinese plants, and I've seen them crank those machines out. It's an awesome sight; it's a scary sight. We can't compete with them.
Let's say that we start to invest the money that you're suggesting we invest in batteries. Have you any idea of how we could keep the jobs here? Please don't tell me that it's because we have trade agreements. They can still bring them here, if they pay the tariffs. They do that and still clean our clocks.
How do we compete with the emerging economies in producing that stuff once we develop the technology?