[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 120 (Monday, September 10, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H5749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              MEXICO/CANADA/UNITED STATES ENERGY ALLIANCE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Texans are growing more concerned 
about the rising cost of gasoline. One lady recently wrote me:

       My husband drives a truck. As gas prices rise, so does the 
     cost of diesel. This affects the cost of every single thing 
     we buy. That includes food.

  Gasoline prices are the one thing that people should not need to 
worry about. We have the resources, but Washington keeps them under 
lock and key. And we still import half our oil from unstable dictators 
like Chavez and the OPEC monopoly.
  Americans can no longer afford to be beholden to the turmoil in the 
Middle East. So what about this idea?
  United States, Mexico, and Canada are rich with God-given natural 
resources. So working together in a new strategic energy partnership, 
our three nations could become the world's new energy superpower 
alliance to compete with OPEC. Let's create an energy supply built to 
last with our North American allies and finally make OPEC and Middle 
Eastern dictators irrelevant.
  And that's just the way it is.

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