CITIZEN POWER ALLIANCE

“I ask my colleagues, please quit buying this concept that we are going to do it with windmills and with sun power. Yes, we could use those things. Yes, we ought to use nuclear, and yes, we ought to use hydro. The wheel of energy should be developed, and this Congress has not done it! Has not done it. We have this idea that we are going to solve the problem. Look at the energy bill we passed this year through Leadership. It produced nothing. Period. Nothing. That’s why the consumer today, in America, is going to that gas pump, and by the way, it’s a tax to him. Every man, woman, and child is paying (nearly) $2,000 a year to Saudi Arabia and countries such as that because we sit idly on our hands. On our hands doing nothing.

“Madam Chairman, I suggest respectfully that this Congress has to wake up! I listen to the political rhetoric of all of the presidential candidates, and nobody is addressing the energy issue other than the fact that we can’t burn fossil fuels because we are losing the icecap and the polar bears are in danger.

“Think about this for a moment. Think about the American public and the need for economy-based, fossil fuel (consumed) because it moves an object. We must address this. I’m asking my colleagues to understand that. Quit pandering! Quit pandering to the interest groups that really are trying to socially structure our nation through that.

“We have the fossil fuel; it is here! It should be developed! We should give the opportunity instead of restricting it, and that’s what we’ve done in this Congress. In my state alone we have ANWR. It’s passed this House 12 times. It passed the Senate once and Bill Clinton vetoed it. It’s got about 36 billion barrels of oil available 74 miles away from an existing pipeline. And this Congress will not step forth and address that issue alone because they say it’s going to hurt the environment, 74 miles away from the existing pipeline.

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