mr. olson: thank you. since i've known you you have been a champion for american energy independence. drill, baby, drill. frack, baby, frack. mr. duncan: that's right. mr. olson: we have the chairman, mr. shimkus, for as time as he may require. mr. shimkus: thank you. i'm glad you have obviously the l.n.g. terminal and the lithuanian flag there, independence. i also brought it down. i don't have to be as complete in my comments because i've heard the comments of easing s be independent of imported russian natural gas. lithuania is on the baltic sea. i am the chair of the baltic caucus. lithuanian, estonia, latvia. watching and encouraging them and their actually leadership of eastern europe. they set out in 2014 to become independent of russian gas. and so they went through the process of getting the l.n.g. terminal. i love the name. it's called the independence. so they can be independent and free. they have a history of being extorted by the russians in the crude oil department. ere's a refinery there whi

mr. olson: thank you, mr. chairman. as you know, the great houston area, my home, was devastated by hurricane harvey. that was 10 months ago and we're still working to recover. and texas is not alone. florida, georgia, louisiana, south carolina, puerto rico, and the u.s. virgin islands ere impacted by a shattering hurricane season. we can't just focus on the last storm season. the 2018 hurricane season started on june 1. tropical storm alberto hit the florida panhandle on may 25, six days before hurricane season. noaa says there's a 75% chance the atlantic hurricane season will be near or above normal. and that's why we must act now to prevent damage from huge floods like harvey. congress worked in a bipartisan manner to pass the bipartisan budget act to provide critical army corps funds to rebuild our communities and prepare for the next storm. it even -- even though that money has been allocated, the work has not begun. and while that is partly due to red tape at the corps, once work begins, we have to move that proce

. >> supervisor peskin:, mr olson, the floor is yours. >> thank you mr president. my name is ted olsen and i'm a third generation san franciscan and sit on the division zero task force. -- sit on the division zero task force. i want to support the approval of this. we've made such progress with vision zero. i think what's really impressive about it is how the departments of the city have come together, acting on such and an important thing. especially how they've been using surveys, media, to conduct such a survey and gather community impressions. i took the survey and i'm sure many others did. there's much discussion in the community, i know it certainly has been on the market. it has been discussed about removing freeways and stuff like that. i commend division zero team and command your approval. >> supervisor peskin: thank you mr olson. seeing no other public comment, i will close public comment, i think you have one more commissioner thacommissioner tho solicit a vote from on the consent agenda. if you could please ask commissioner kim how she would like to vo

the big problem i see -- and mr. olson or, jeff, you just mentioned it, the big problem is why do all of these companies , like microsoft and google, why are they so powerful? because we made them so powerful. it is that simple. without the kind of information, data, privacy is that we have given up on a voluntary basis, and that we have given up on a monopoly basis to a very few players in the market, they wouldn't be able to create and establish and analyze all of these profiles they are able to take advantage from now. >> i have spent the last 25 years or so in telecommunications. once the provisions of the 1996 act was a strict protector of proprietary network information. when mr. rosen was speaking about the cell phone thief who was tracked for five weeks through verizon, and as someone else talked about the snowden revelations which, in my understanding, was something like this giant data room where everything that went across at&t and verizon networks was being listened to and whether it was u.s. or foreign speaker

mr olson, we. >> my name is ted olson. it was an honour, it is an honour to serve on the board for this project. i, obviously ask your approval of it, but i am here today to commend the director on the way he conducted and chose all of the participants for this, particularly his collegial work with the other partner departments which means that this is aniform intelligence of all of your infrastructure departments. i also want to commend susan, and the entire team for leading our see wg through this process of understanding all of the technicalities that went into this decision. finally i say, about the importance, and as john said, the differences between airports and roads versus railroad, by the time high-speed rail comes to san francisco, and the importance of this is it is a regional plan that we have proposed, by the time it arrives in san francisco, we will have 1 million residents. i urge your approval. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. >> mr chairman, members of the commission, our interest is really in getting cal

a police state for a couple decades, and because of this, i was very happy about the point that mr. olson made in the end about big corporations because, in my opinion, there is a misunderstanding of the current facebook scand in my opinion, it is not abuse of facebook and misuse of facebook data, it is use of facebook data, what has happened there. the whole problem that has been raised already in the panel was the free mentality that we see in the internet. it is convenient to get all of the services that we want, messaging, email, and this one for free in exchange for our data. i pay for my email service provider. i pay for my messenger. i am an economist. professional.t. but as an economist, i know there is no free lunch. them, if i do not pay there are no free things. they have no choice but to use my data. the question is, when will the rest of the population wake up and realize there is something going wrong and maybe they have to change their behavior? what can we do in order to incentivize them? is a campaign for education and or can we do anything else to make them understand th

>> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from texas, we have a few of those on this committee, mr. olson, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and before i talk about the rfs, i want you all to note a very important thing that happened about two hours ago in this committee. our chairman proved he is a want to be texan. he keeps saying, yell, in texas, -- y'all, in texas, bigger is better. he is my mentor. he gave me a shimmer, a bobble head mr. shimkus. i'm just going to put on a cowboy hat. >> can i have your time? >> welcome to texas, mr. chairman. i want to be serious. as you all know, i have some deep concerns about going forward with the rfs as it stands today. it was designed for a very different american energy environment. we were an importer of oil and gas. now we are an exporter. i think today it stands as a very flawed mandate. one problem i have with the rfs is the severe cost displaces on smaller funders, like cvs, which is headquartered in my district, sugar land, texas. for those reasons, i worry about the potential cost of upgrades to newer high octane fuels. fir

and another for mr. olson.part of a seven run third they blew up the royals 16-0. >> giants taught a shutout of their own. the phillies were in town. 4-0. they are getting back some of the injured players. say hello to joe with an rbi single to the second. 2-0 giants. hernandez with a glove out to center field. he tracked it down. take any and made a pretty impressive grab. nice catch. he will step up here is what out a single. brandon crawford came home. 4 combined giants on the shut out. giants 5-0.>>> today is the annual junior giants glove drive. fans are asked to donate a new or gently used mitt at at&t park for the philadelphia game. they can off in a $10 donation. all donors will receive a commemorative 60th anniversary pen or special buster pen. proceeds will go to the junior giants graham -- program. >> stamford is the number two team in the country. 13 innings, but they defeated ohio 4-3. this was stamford's longest postseason game. another nailbiter in 2002. last nights game took more than 4 hours. a