[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 85 (Thursday, June 29, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H5442]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REPEAL GAS TAX DURING GAS CRISIS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, we have a Vice President who wants to do 
away with the internal combustion engine. And I guess that is fine, for 
the inventor of the Internet, who thinks all the world should go to the 
office on the information highway.
  But with that information in mind, for the past 7 years we have had 
an administration that has locked up the strategic oil petroleum 
reserves in America, choking off our own domestic supply. We have had 
an administration who has taken great pride in blowing up dams out 
West, even though we get 10 percent of our energy from hydropower. And 
we have an administration who has closed off our oil pipelines in 
Alaska.
  As a result, today Americans are paying anywhere from 50 cents to 75 
cents to $1 a gallon higher at the pump. It does not have to be this 
way. We need to have a coherent, cohesive energy policy that says if we 
need to be weaned from this evil internal combustion engine, let us do 
it so we do not have the hardships that we have at the pump for the 
American middle-class family.
  I think we should repeal the 18 cents per-gallon gas tax and give 
Americans some relief.

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