just about a year after his speech, hyman rickover gave a great speech. google for it, please, a speech that will come up and he noted that in the 8,000 year recorded history of man the age oil would be but a blip and he cautioned that we had no idea how long it lasted but how long it lasted was important in only one regard he said. the longer it lasted, the more time we would have to plan an orderly transition to other sources of energy. that's what alternative fuels are about. i would not like to limit the military's ability to develop sources for alternative fuels, if, in fact, the 84 million barrels of oil a day is now at peak and not simply a pause in the ever-increasing production of oil that the world has seen in the past. so i would hope that if we pass this amendment or don't pass this amendment that we will note the reality that oil is finite. if we have not reached a peak now we will reach the peak and every dollar increase in the price of oil, i think, costs the military $30 million. so this to the military is is a very serious consideration.