[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 118 (Thursday, July 17, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H6712]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            AMERICAN ENERGY

  (Mr. KING of Iowa asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor to address the 
energy situation as well and point something out that I don't believe 
has been very well illustrated here.
  This chart that I have, the inside circle is all of the Btus of 
energy that are consumed in the United States annually, 72 quadrillion 
Btus. The outside circle is all of the different sources of energy. 
Excuse me, this is the production chart on the inside. The outside 
circle is the consumption chart. We are producing only 72 percent of 
the overall energy that we are consuming. We need to grow the entire 
size of the energy pie. But if you take out of it all of the things 
that the environmentalists don't want us to do, it leaves only a little 
bit of solar and wind and geothermal. That is only 0.74 percent of our 
energy production.
  They want to grow it into 100 percent of our energy production. That 
cannot be done. We have to grow all sources, not the tiny little 
sliver, three-quarters of 1 percent that the environmentalists would 
let us do. Let's go for all of it, as the gentleman from Illinois said.

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