[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H8142]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    DRILLING ALONE IS NOT THE ANSWER

  (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Bush-Cheney 
energy plan, supported by the Republican majority here in Congress, is 
95 percent implemented. Yet the prices have increased by 150 percent. 
For the last 12 years, up until this term, the Republicans have been in 
the majority, along with the President.
  Democrats have been the majority less than 2 years, and we are trying 
to put together a piece of legislation that brings in every aspect of 
some type of resolution for the energy shortage. All of us know that 
drilling alone is not the answer.
  We can drill all we want to. The population of the world has gotten 
so large that there is no way it's going to be enough to do what we 
need to do. We have got to do alternative fuels that's in this bill, 
even including the possibility of nuclear energy.
  I will support this bill strongly because it has a multiple number of 
ways to address this problem.

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