[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 116 (Tuesday, July 15, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H6479]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            DRILL IN AMERICA AND BRING DOWN THE PRICE OF GAS

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, I want to urge the Speaker of the House 
to join with our leader, John Boehner, in lowering the price of 
gasoline. They can do it immediately simply by holding a press 
conference and announcing we're going to work together in a nonpartisan 
way for the good of America to open up domestic energy sources by 
drilling in the United States. We're the only Nation on the face of the 
Earth that will not use our own natural resources. This is just 
fundamental common sense. Schlumberger and Shell have said that there 
is more shale oil in three Western States than all the oil in the 
Middle East combined.
  We could open up the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. Congress now 
can move, and in a bipartisan way, to bring down the price of oil 
simply by announcing we're moving to open up these domestic sources. 
The marketplace will respond and the price of gas and the price of oil 
will drop. This is so simple, it's so easy, it's so good for America.
  Let's all stand together without regard to party for the benefit of 
this Nation, which is hurting so much from high gas prices, and say we 
are going to use American resources for America to create good, high-
paying American jobs.
  Drill in America in a safe, environmentally clean way, and bring down 
the price of gas today.

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