Ted Liu
Ted Liu
abundant attracting capital expertise fuel future geographic high hydrogen ideal investing lead limited location recognized renewable technology transition wisely
The state's combination of abundant renewable resources, high fuel prices, limited geographic area, and recognized expertise in hydrogen technology R&D, makes it an ideal location to lead the state's transition to a renewable energy-to-hydrogen economy. By attracting considerable investments of capital and expertise to Hawaii, we will be investing wisely for our future needs.
acceptable address imported oil policy price
Hawaii's overdependence on imported oil is not acceptable and we need to address it with something more than short-term policy of price controls.
bench challenge commercial research results seeing start terms
It's a challenge to get researchers to think more in commercial terms ? to take things off the research bench and put them into the commercial area. It is a process. Hopefully, we'll start seeing more results in the foreseeable future.
appetite nobody
They're over and done because nobody is going to have an appetite for that.
accomplish consumers essence fair sure trying
The essence we're trying to accomplish is to make sure consumers get a fair price. I don't think that's happened.
access everybody gets government limited meetings missions sponsors
Everybody that comes on these missions gets meetings. There are government meetings that are necessarily limited not necessarily by us. For some of these meetings, the sponsors do have access to these meetings.
accept determination full future legality
At that time, no competitive bidding was required. Should there now or in the future be a different determination of the legality of the structure, I will accept full responsibility.
crude dependent embargo exposed foreign known oil position precarious since state
We've now known for 31 years since the first oil embargo that Hawaii's precarious position as the state most dependent and exposed to foreign crude oil is unacceptable.
absolute brought cap gas government knowing law markets passed price
We passed a gas price cap law without knowing what was actually happening. The price cap brought us from no government intervention in the markets to an absolute government intervention.
criticized missions trade
To me that's the only way that these trade missions should be done. If we weren't doing this, probably we would get criticized for doing too little.
accept anybody cooperate department direction establish extent happy objective review types wants
To the extent the Legislature wants to give the department some direction as to how these private-public partnerships should be done in the future, we would be more than happy to accept that direction. To the extent that the objective of having the auditor or anybody else review what we have done is to establish those types of parameters, we ... would cooperate fully.