[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 149 (Thursday, September 18, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H8401]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        GOOD ENERGY BILL NEEDED

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CARTER. Madam Speaker, we have got an investment crisis that 
seems to be rising and the talking heads were on television last night 
talking about it. Most everyone agreed that we needed a long-term plan 
that our investing community could look to as we grow our economy. It 
needs to be long-term and it needs to have solutions. Part of that was 
an energy plan, a plan you could rely upon.
  I heard an environmentalist this morning say we need to go to 
alternative fuels, but we need a transition with carbon-based fuels. 
Yet we passed an energy plan which purports to have drilling for these 
necessary oil and gas resources, but there is still in place the 
availability of radical environmentalists to stop all drilling by 
filing lawsuits. They have declared 80 percent-plus of the areas off-
limits to drilling, and they have set up kind of ``gotchas'' that will 
prevent the rest of that drilling.
  We need a good energy plan.

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