[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 83 (Tuesday, May 20, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H4284]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               GAS PRICES

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, gas prices are now over $4 a gallon and may 
be headed higher. Almost all environmental radicals come from very 
wealthy or very upper income families. Environmentalists apparently 
want gas to go even higher so people will drive less.
  Well, maybe these wealthy environmentalists can afford $5 a gallon 
gas, but many poor and lower income and working people are already 
hurting. Week before last we heard that 935 trucking companies have 
gone out of business in the first quarter of this year.
  We can produce oil now in environmentally safe ways, and we don't 
have to produce all of our oil. But if we don't start producing a 
little more, and soon, we're going to become even more vulnerable to 
foreign oil producers, and we're going to hurt many working people in 
the process.

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