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 <title>Geothermal will play a greater role. The question is how much and how soon? We are dramatically shifting investment over the next three years into renewable energy supplies for the future and geothermal is nearly inexhaustible. And is one where there are more applications than people think and it needs to be a part of a diverse portfolio.” &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Reporter:&lt;/b&gt; “Is funding an issue?”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Blumenauer: “Funding will be less of an issue in the next Congress, because we will shift away, there is no question in my mind, from subsidizing the mature sources of the past. We are in the process of shifting subsidy from the mature sources of that are part of our energy past and redirecting it for things that are part of our energy future that aren’t yet mature and for whom this subsidy makes all the difference in the world. I think there will be more money over the next three years and it will be targeted in ways that will magnify its impact.</title>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Matt Laslo</dc:creator>
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