Politics & Power Quote by Albert Wynn

“I will continue” is doing a lot of quiet work here: it signals that Albert Wynn isn’t pitching a shiny new idea so much as staking out continuity in a policy fight where momentum is fragile and alliances are transactional. As a politician, Wynn frames hydrogen not as a moonshot but as an “economy” that can be built, step by step, with government as the scaffolding.

The intent is pointedly institutional. He’s not celebrating hydrogen’s virtues or promising consumer benefits; he’s arguing for the unglamorous backbone of adoption: production capacity, storage, distribution. That triad reads like a checklist from a logistics brief, which is the point. The subtext: markets won’t spontaneously coordinate the chicken-and-egg problem of clean fuels. Without pipelines, terminals, and storage caverns, hydrogen stays stuck in pilot projects and press releases. He’s making the case that the state must de-risk the infrastructure layer so private capital can pretend it was inevitable.

There’s also a political tell in “strong federal government role.” Wynn is preemptively answering the predictable critique that Washington should “get out of the way.” By emphasizing networks rather than mandates, he positions federal action as enabling rather than controlling: less nanny state, more system-builder. It’s a canny posture in an era when industrial policy is often rebranded as competitiveness or energy security.

Contextually, this sits in the long U.S. tradition of federal underwriting for new energy systems (think highways, rural electrification, natural gas buildout). Hydrogen here is less a technology than a coalition: climate ambition, labor-friendly construction, and regional economic development bundled into a single, infrastructure-shaped promise.