[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 30 (Wednesday, March 2, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H1495]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

  (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I am glad my colleague came up to talk 
about high energy prices. We have consistently tried on this side of 
the aisle to talk about an all-of-the-above energy strategy. We are 
independent on electricity generation, but we are held captive to 
imported crude oil.
  So what does that mean?
  That means we are stuck with a one-fuel technology. In an all-of-the-
above energy strategy, we envision a world where you go to a filling 
station, and you have fuel competing. You have coal-to-liquid 
technologies; you have liquid fuel by natural gas; you have renewable 
fuel by biomass. You have all of these issues to help decrease our 
reliance on imported crude oil. We have the operability for an oil-sand 
pipeline from Canada.
  We really can be independent on our energy needs based upon North 
American energy resources. We have to be about that. For the 
administration to celebrate opening up one permit on the gulf coast is 
a joke. We ought to get our drilling rigs back and operating.

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