boen so, if you will give me a couple minutes, let me say how pleased i am that we are doing this. dstall remember this time last year. we were in the midst of an energy crisis, paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline, and americans were seeing their utility bills skyrocket. we were not making any policy shanges, those energy problems haven't gone away. the prices may have subsided, but undoubtedly, unless we come to grips with this problem, we are going to see those problems arise again. we need to develop alternative reagy, certainly. but the cornerstone of any real solution to the american energy problem needs to involve offshore resources and nuclear power. environmental groups indeed y,nistrations have been focused solely on the alternative energy, or green energy, and i am willing to have any conversation with anybody about wind, solar and biomass but these can provide for only a fraction of our energy needs. we cannot focus exclusively on developing alternative energy. we must have a balanced approach that expands our existing resources which have proven to be successful in the p