"I'm sure you petroleum folks understand that solar power will solve all our problems. How much money have we blown on that? This is the hippies' program from the seventies and they're still pushing this stuff."
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Trent Lott, On solar energy in a speech to the Independent Petroleum Association of America, as quoted in The Washington Post (23 May 1997).
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