[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 118 (Thursday, July 17, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H6680]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                            ENERGY PLAN NOW

  (Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I have been on the House 
floor asking the majority party if they've been hearing from the 
citizens about their financial struggles with high gas prices because I 
have.
  This month, I mailed a survey to families in my district asking for 
their comments about the energy crisis. I wanted to hear from them 
about their opinions, their ideas of what we, as Members of Congress, 
should be doing to ease the high gas prices.
  In response to the survey I sent to these citizens, we had tremendous 
responses: some things like find alternatives to oil; move the country 
beyond that; we need to support conservative changes in lifestyle; 
waste less; we have to change; develop new technologies, to get us off 
oil; drill now; drill everywhere; encourage automakers to make vehicles 
not powered by gasoline. Yeah. They're right. We need to do it all, and 
we need to do it now.
  Is the majority party not hearing what I'm hearing? Worse, if they 
are, are they not choosing to help these people and bring energy 
legislation to the floor?
  Mr. Speaker, we need energy legislation on the floor, and we need it 
now.

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