[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 101 (Wednesday, June 18, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H5488]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            HIGH GAS PRICES

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak for all the 
hardworking people in east Alabama who are getting swamped by high gas 
prices. Each of us in this Chamber knows that gas is over $5 a gallon 
in this country and rising. We all know that high gas prices are making 
everything more expensive, from groceries to clothing.
  The question is what is this House going to do about it? For one, we 
should vote this week to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for 
energy exploration. We should also open the Outer Continental Shelf in 
the Gulf of Mexico.
  Combined, these two locations have the potential of providing our 
country almost 100 billion barrels of oil. In addition, Congress must 
get serious about funding alternative energy research. A great example 
is the work being done at Auburn University in my home State of 
Alabama. I would like to invite my colleagues to visit the Auburn 
mobile bioenergy unit here in D.C. this week.
  Efforts like these are critical or a critical part of the solution to 
high gas prices, but so is using the resources we have here at home in 
an environmentally sensitive way. This is just common sense, and there 
is nothing that should stop Congress from following this course.

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