BARTLETT Transcript

REPRESENTATIVE ROSCOE G. BARTLETT

MARYLAND 6TH DISTRICT
2005 ENERGY CONFERENCE

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005
9:00 A.M.

REPRESENTATIVE ROSCOE G. BARTLETT (R-MD):  Good morning and
thank you all very much for coming.  This is kind of like coming home to me.  I worked
here for 12 years at the community college, taught anatomy and physiology to the nursing
students and also taught a biology course.  And when the publishers saw that I taught a
biology course, they all sent me their textbooks hoping that I would adopt it for the class
of course and then they could sell some textbooks.  And so over my desk went all of the
textbooks in biology.  And all of them had chapters on energy and environment and so
forth.  And I would read those.  And so my concern about the subject that we’re talking
about today is more than 30 years old because I have been reading and thinking about this
for at least 30 years now.

I really appreciate you all coming and especially appreciative of the members of
the panels that have come.  We have here today represented some of the experts from
around the country and indeed around the world.  I would just mention them briefly now