Ted Liu Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They're over and done because nobody is going to have an appetite for that.

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.

The essence we're trying to accomplish is to make sure consumers get a fair price. I don't think that's happened.

We are pleased that the state's economy has grown faster than the national average over the past three years.

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.