[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 71 (Tuesday, May 22, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H2391]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SOLUTIONS TO ENERGY CRISIS

  (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a minute to talk about 
the President's energy plan. I am very supportive of it.
  As a member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Policy, what we have 
found out is that we need to have a diversified energy portfolio, just 
like anyone would have a good diversified investment portfolio. We need 
to make sure that we have baseload generating capacities using coal, 
nuclear, hydroelectric power. We cannot continue to rely solely on 
natural gas as the market, the supply and demand, will just say, the 
higher the demand, the more limited the market, and the higher the 
price is.

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  Energy is an important concern to many Americans. The best way to 
address the national energy crisis is to increase supply of the 
generating fuels, and also do some energy conservation to increase the 
demand.

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