[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 13, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H261]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEATING FUEL COSTS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, home heating fuel costs have doubled. The 
companies blame OPEC and the bitter winter. Now if that is not enough 
to insulate your BVDs, these same companies are now saying, and I 
quote, they are losing money. Beam me up.
  I say it is time to impose a $100 million fine on this bunch of bric-
a-bracin, ratchet-fratchet nincompoops who have a license to steal and 
are stealing from our constituents.
  I yield back all of the gas of the beer drinkers association as an 
in-kind contribution to all of these poor, unprofitable, crying energy 
companies.

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