[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 85 (Thursday, May 22, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H4456]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   LET'S USE AMERICA'S OWN RESOURCES

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Well, last week the House and Senate 
adopted a policy that admits that supply does matter. We voted to stop 
putting 70,000 barrels of oil each day in the Strategic Petroleum 
Reserve, less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the world's consumption of 
oil. Then Iran announced it was going to slow down production.
  In the meantime, the U.S. has massive supplies of oil that we're 
saying ``no'' to, and Congress continues to say we're not going to 
drill. Well, ``no'' is not an energy policy. Begging the Saudis for oil 
is not an energy policy. Just yelling in cathartic sessions at oil 
executives is not an energy policy.
  America's families know, America's truckers know, let's drill for our 
own oil. Let's use America's own resources. Let's lower the price of 
gasoline and make this affordable.

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