[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 9 (Thursday, January 13, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H182]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           HYPOCRISY IN PLANS FOR GREEN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, we have a lot of lofty goals in this 
country about green energy, renewable energy, and such. But we are not 
providing the ways in order to get there.
  One of the important components is the mined products that we need to 
go into various equipment and vehicles, et cetera. We are not able to 
mine the critical minerals, the rare earths in this country.
  For example, to get a permit to open a type of mine or expand a mine, 
it could be 15, 16, 18 years in this country while our neighbors just 
north of the border, a 2- or 3-year process to secure the permits to 
mine products that are desperately needed in this country if we are 
ever going to talk about meeting the goals you would have for renewable 
energy, electric cars, and all that in order to lower the carbon 
footprint.
  So what is the hypocrisy here? In my home State of California, you 
can hardly get mining done. You can hardly even keep electricity 
flowing because of taking away power plants due to--those are power 
plants that would be zero CO2. I don't understand the 
hypocrisy. So we have to get smart about this.

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