[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H8141]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            EIGHTY DOLLARS TO FILL UP A MINIVAN IS A CRISIS

  (Mr. KELLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. KELLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, when a single mom in Orlando, 
Florida, is paying $80 to fill up her minivan, that's a crisis. It's a 
crisis that this Democratic energy bill does not address.
  Now, why doesn't it address it? Democratic colleagues at the Sierra 
Club, the head of the Sierra Club said, ``We're better off without 
cheap gas.'' Well, let's look at the specifics. There is no ANWR in 
this bill whatsoever, even though it's the single largest untapped 
source of oil in the United States of America.
  With 10.4 billion barrels of oil available, that's enough to provide 
all of Florida's energy needs for 29 years. It's enough to give us 1 
million barrels of oil a day every single day for the next 30 years, 
but it's nowhere in the bill.
  Why? Because we're better off without cheap gas, according to the 
Democrats and their colleagues. Well, we are not better off without 
cheap gas, we are better off without cheap political stunts, and that's 
what this Democratic energy bill is.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on it and give us an up-or-down 
vote on the American Energy Act.

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