so your first concern would be the price of diesel fuelir diesel fuel is what makes transportation possible in this country. virtually everything you buy in america arrived by diesel engine. our entire trucking fleet runsng on diesel. so doesuy every single freight locomotive in the united states. so diesel prices get too high. transportation secretary, transport stops the price ofth nearly everything becomes unaffordablein. af so inflation is directly connected to transportation and transportation requires diesel. it turns out the dieseltoat fuel prices are the key to a lot of the american economy. and you would know that your second concern if you were we transportation secretary would be domestic air travel. this is a huge country. it s far too big a country not to have reliable commercial flights from one place to another. businesses depend on the airlines and so the families for generations they ve been able to depend on the airlines. america has had the most efficient a
kentucky has some questions weut that provision oncent recognize different ages for different purposes, recognize eighteen the draft. we recognize the sixteen for driving in some states we recognize twenty one for drinking. so we recognize different ages for different purposes. that s all i want to thank you , mr. could i have a second to engage that certainly with the gentleman from kentuckyri with the chairman. join me in cosponsoring a bill to raise the draft age to twenty one . no but the chairman feels that their brains aren t fully formed at 18 , 19 and 20 . the research does indicate d that in certain respects. but the selective service needs i mean it s if the country needs people in these people, it needs people whose brains aren t fully formed in certain respects. yes. oh ,ll so you can t have a fully formed brain in order to go fight one of the neocon wars, go fight one more potent but