and i don't mean just judge flannery. i mean judges like judge william bryant for whom our annex is named and joyce green and colleen fatelli. appointed by district judges as -- foreign intelligence veins court by chief justice rehnquist. judge flannery and the other judges i have named all share the view that federal judges should be neutral and should strive to apply neutral principles in their decision making. their personal views had to be and were set aside. they applied the constitution and followed the law. chief justice roberts has spoken eloquently about the need for adequate pay for judges if we are to attract and retain more tom flannerys. i don't need to rye to supplement what the chief judge has stated on that point, and i hope to not undercut it by anything i say today either, frankly but last week at the university of idaho, chief justice roberts spoke about the judiciary nomination and confirm, process. the chief justice talked about how the process of appointing new justices to the supreme court has becom

james lovelock, an absolutely brilliant scientist and essential reading for everybody, i think, tim flannery's book, ray a lot about global warming and i'm not sure whether it's too late, but we have got to move extremely quickly, i think to save this beautiful world that we have got for our children and grandchildren. so we will keep working on it. >> how quickly could some of these alternative fuels come online and what's the outlook for alternative fuels, things we haven't even thought of, for the next decade? >> i sort of answered part of that question but i think that the -- i think that the alternative, there's some alternative fuels that could be used right away. if america were not trying to protect its farmers, and i think mistakingly so, who produce corn-based ethanol, and effectively making it prohibitively expensive for sugar-based ethanol to be brought in from brazil, most of your cars in america could be run today up to 85% of all cars -- every individual car could be run on a very clean sugar-based ethanol from places like brazil and the caribbean. and the corn-based farmers cou