[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 27, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H3625]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SUPPORT PRESIDENT'S SOUND ENERGY PLAN

  (Mr. RYUN of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYUN of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, President Bush has outlined what I 
think is a sound energy policy that is both forward thinking and 
sensible, but opponents of his plan sound like a broken record, 
accusing the President of being anti-environment.
  The assertion that we must choose between sound energy policy and 
healthy environment is simply not true. As an example, we need to look 
no further than the clean air standards set up in the early nineties. 
Regulations for fuel resulted in refineries using additives that 
produced clean air, but polluted the groundwater. That is, until the 
development of ethanol.
  Ethanol is a biofuel that is produced from corn and grain sorghum. It 
protects our quality of air by reducing tailpipe emissions and 
greenhouse emissions. And as an added bonus, ethanol can provide help 
for our economy, especially our American farmers, and not for OPEC. I, 
for one, would rather depend upon the good graces of a Kansas farmer 
than foreign oil producers.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the President's sound 
energy policy.

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